Improving interactions between animal rights groups and conservation biologists

Conservation Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 27-35

  Perry, Dan ^a   Perry, Gad ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal rights; Eradication; Introduced species; Policy

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; PIG; RODENT; WATERFOWL;

ANIMAL RIGHTS; BIOETHICS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; POLICY; REVIEW;

ANIMAL RIGHTS; BIOETHICS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; PUBLIC POLICY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FORT WORTH; ITALY; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TEXAS; UNITED STATES; VERMONT;

ANIMALIA; CYGNUS OLOR; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS; SUIDAE; TAMIASCIURUS;

EID: 38849179412     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2007.00845.x     Document Type: Review

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