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    Endangered species and biodiversity (Encyclopedia of Bioethics)
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 1995) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, author; Simon and Schuster, publisher
    Reliable estimates are that about 20 percent of Earth's species may be lost within a few decades, about evenly distributed through major groups of plants and animals. The United Nations at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro launched the Convention on Biological Diversity. The U.S. Congress has sought to protect species through the Endangered Species Act. Almost all inhabited lands are impoverished of their native fauna and flora. On an anthropocentric account, the duties involved are to persons; there are no duties to endangered species, though duties may concern species. There is something morally naive, about living in a reference frame where one species values everything else relative to its utility. Biodiversity is the common heritage of humankind, all nations share duties to protect it.
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    Wildlife conservation and management (Encyclopedia of Bioethics)
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 1995) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, author; Simon and Schuster, publisher
    Human activities affect wildlife quite adversely, and humans have duties to care for them, both because of what humans have at stake and also because of what wildlife are in themselves. The main ethical issues in wildlife management (1) the contemporary crisis of conserving historically evolved wildlife populations on rapidly developing human landscapes (2) ownership, control, management, and stewardship responsibilities for wildlife, (3) conservation of endangered wildlife species, (4) fishes and fisheries as managed wildlife populations, (5) wildlife as game for hunting and trapping, including hunting as a conservation strategy, (6) "hands-on" versus "hands-off" management, and (7) feral animals. These are issues of management objectives, but there are ethical questions at every point.