Duties to endangered species (Encyclopedia of Environmental Biology)
Date
1995
Authors
Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
Academic Press, publisher
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Abstract
Whether humans have duties to endangered species is a significant theoretical and an urgent practical question. Few doubt that we have some obligations concerning species. But these might be all obligations to persons benefitted or harmed by species as resources. Is there a human duty directly to species, additionally to obligations that humans have to fellow members of their own species? An answer is vital to the question of the conservation of biodiversity, how humans can achieve a sustainable relationship to the natural world.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (pages [527-528]).
Rights Access
Subject
Endangered Species Act
extinction
humans
species
environmental ethics
ecosystems
evolution