Conservation welfare

'''Conservation welfare''' is a proposed discipline concerned with common ground between conservation and animal welfare. Its supporters describe it as a way for the two fields to work together while pursuing their respective objectives.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Beausoleil |first1=Ngaio J. |author-link=Ngaio Beausoleil |last2=Mellor |first2=David J. |last3=Baker |first3=Liv |last4=Baker |first4=Sandra E. |last5=Bellio |first5=Mariagrazia |last6=Clarke |first6=Alison S. |last7=Dale |first7=Arnja |last8=Garlick |first8=Steve |last9=Jones |first9=Bidda |last10=Harvey |first10=Andrea |last11=Pitcher |first11=Benjamin J. |date=2018 |title="Feelings and Fitness" Not "Feelings or Fitness"-The Raison d'etre of Conservation Welfare, Which Aligns Conservation and Animal Welfare Objectives |journal=Frontiers in Veterinary Science |language=English |volume=5 |page=296 |doi=10.3389/fvets.2018.00296 |issn=2297-1769 |pmc=6277474 |pmid=30538995 |doi-access=free}}</ref>

The discipline has been described as drawing on Peter Singer's utilitarianism. Like compassionate conservation, it differs from some approaches in environmental ethics by concentrating on the welfare of individual animals rather than species, ecosystems or populations.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Learmonth |first=Mark James |date=November 2020 |title=Human-Animal Interactions in Zoos: What Can Compassionate Conservation, Conservation Welfare and Duty of Care Tell Us about the Ethics of Interacting, and Avoiding Unintended Consequences? |journal=Animals |language=en |volume=10 |issue=11 |pages=2037 |doi=10.3390/ani10112037 |pmid=33158270 |pmc=7694286 |doi-access=free}}</ref> Ngaio Beausoleil has argued that conservation welfare differs from compassionate conservation because the two approaches have different understandings of the harms experienced by wild animals. Beausoleil states that conservation welfare seeks to work with conservation scientists and incorporate animal welfare into existing conservation practice, while compassionate conservation may lack the capacity to "guide decision-making in complex or novel situations".<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Beausoleil |first=Ngaio J. |date=2020-02-06 |title=I Am a Compassionate Conservation Welfare Scientist: Considering the Theoretical and Practical Differences Between Compassionate Conservation and Conservation Welfare |journal=Animals |volume=10 |issue=2 |page=257 |doi=10.3390/ani10020257 |issn=2076-2615 |pmc=7070475 |pmid=32041150 |doi-access=free}}</ref>

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