Integrating values and ethics into wildlife policy and management-lessons from North America

Animals

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 126-143

  Fox, Camilla H ^a,b   Bekoff, Marc ^c  

^a Project Coyote   (United States)

^b Animal Welfare Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Carnivores; Coexistence; Ethics; Human wildlife interaction; Predator management; Reintroduction; Values; Wildlife management; Wolves

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879171617     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20762615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ani1010126     Document Type: Article

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