Compassion as a practical and evolved ethic for conservation

BioScience

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 323-327

  Ramp, Daniel ^a   Bekoff, Marc ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Conservation; Policy ethics; Wildlife science

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84935493838     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: 15253244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biu223     Document Type: Review

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