Steinhardt Margarita, Pratt Susanne, Ramp Daniel
TD School, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW 2007, Australia.
Centre for Compassionate Conservation, TD School, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW 2007, Australia.
Animals (Basel). 2022 Oct 31;12(21):2996. doi: 10.3390/ani12212996.
With many felid species in widespread decline, re-thinking the messy felid-human entanglements is a necessary step for fostering coexistence as current conservation frameworks centered on human exceptionalism and widespread violence toward wild animals are conspicuously failing felids. This paper argues for fostering a critical awareness of how we understand our relationships with nonhuman animals, particularly in the context of conservation. We bring two distinct but related interdisciplinary fields into a dialogue to critically question the values and conceptual assumptions that frame the practices of felid conservation today. Compassionate conservation and multispecies studies share many synergies and conceptual overlaps despite emerging from different academic domains. We identified four key areas for further exploration: (1) A shift in emphasis from practices of killing to the underlying assumptions that make forms of killing permissible and ethically unproblematic. (2) Re-engagement with individuals, not just species, in conservation settings. (3) Unsettling human exceptionalism through an emphasis on the agency of animals and an ethic involving compassion. (4) Acknowledging the ways in which humans co-become with other animals and cultivating relationships of multispecies cohabitation and flourishing.
随着许多猫科动物种类普遍减少，重新思考混乱的猫科动物与人类的纠葛是促进共存的必要步骤，因为当前以人类例外论和对野生动物的广泛暴力为中心的保护框架显然未能保护好猫科动物。本文主张培养一种批判性意识，即我们如何理解与非人类动物的关系，尤其是在保护背景下。我们将两个不同但相关的跨学科领域进行对话，以批判性地质疑塑造当今猫科动物保护实践的价值观和概念假设。尽管同情性保护和多物种研究来自不同的学术领域，但它们有许多协同作用和概念上的重叠。我们确定了四个需要进一步探索的关键领域：（1）重点从杀戮行为转向使杀戮形式被允许且在伦理上无问题的潜在假设。（2）在保护环境中重新关注个体，而不仅仅是物种。（3）通过强调动物的能动性和一种包含同情的伦理来打破人类例外论。（4）承认人类与其他动物共同成长的方式，并培养多物种同居与繁荣的关系。
