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Can we talk about Cecil the Lion?

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Animal rights is concerned with individual animals, and their suffering and welfare. And culls of Nyala have been proposed. I’m not unsympathetic to concerns about animal welfare, really. Conservation is concerned about protecting populations, species, habitats, ecosystems. So we do the best we can with what we have.

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

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Increased scrutiny of practices long considered the norm in wildlife management, including predator hunts, commercial trapping, the legal culling of non-game birds like American Crows, and some of the research protocols used to track and translocate wild animals. Capturing wild animals for live trade and captivity should not be permitted.

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