The stymieing effect of unresolved ethical issues on the conservation of biodiversity
In this presentation, Professor John Vucetich & Professor David MacDonald, will examine how the terms \u201cecosystem health\u201d and \u201cendangered species\u201d are underdetermined to the point of being increasingly problematic for advancing real-world conservation Many real-world conservation issues are also treated as negotiations between those who are for and against conservation, where the effort is either discovering a win-win outcome or the assertion of political power for some particular win-lose outcome. These hyper-political environments distract from steep ethical trade-offs that rise from the inevitable conflicts about four basic goals: conservation, social justice, animal welfare, and increased agricultural production. The best outcomes almost certainly require that more of society\u2019s leaders become more facile with the ethical dimensions of these trade-offs.