On Forect Conservation: Reconciling Rights of Individuals with Rights of Wild Species

Science-based conservation must address its primary goal of recovering endangered wild species. However, conservationists are also occasionally compelled to eradicate harmful species and even kill individuals of rare species (such as man-eating tigers). They must also deal with the harvest and use of some wild species. Within such a scientific framework, species conservation can be defined as promotion of the ̳rights‘ of wild species, thus embracing the issue of compassion at some level.