… attempt to argue that compassionate conservation is the ethically most defensible
approach to conservation. We agree that compassion is a laudable attribute, and support
efforts to ensure ethical treatment of animals and to reduce unnecessary suffering. But,
Wallach et al. propose an alarmingly simplistic approach based on concern for the welfare
of individual wild animals irrespective of whether the focus on individuals threatens the
survival of other life forms, including human beings, or actually delivers on … versalizing …