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  1. Acquire and make easily accessible to zoo and aquarium professionals the current body of knowledge on animal welfare and ethics.
  2. Conduct and facilitate welfare assessments and applied welfare research on captive exotic animals.
  3. Convene important discussions and presentations on captive exotic animal welfare and ethics.
  4. Train professionals on captive exotic animal welfare best practices and policies.
  5. Recognize advances in improving captive exotic animal welfare and ethics through awards.
URL: https://detroitzoo.org/resources/?fwp_search=harvesting

Compassionate versus consequentialist conservation

Authors: Jordan O. Hampton, Bruce Warburton, Peter Sandoe

Publication/Journal: Conservation Biology

Keywords: animal ethics, culling, harvesting, human–wildlife conflict, overabundance, wildlife management

2019

Kangaroo harvesters and the euthanasia of orphaned young-at-foot: applying the theory of planned behaviour to an animal welfare issue

Authors: T. M. Sharp, S. R. McLeod

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, attitudes, commercial harvesting, kangaroo, social psychology, theory of planned behaviour

2016

A welfare assessment of methods used for harvesting, hunting and population control of kangaroos and wallabies

Authors: K. A. Descovich, I. J. McDonald, A. Tribe, C. J. C. Phillips

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, culling, lethal control, macropod, non-lethal control, population management

2015

The Puerto Rican parrot reintroduction program: Sustainable management of the aviary population

Authors: Joanne Earnhardt, Jafet Vélez-Valentín, Ricardo Valentin, Sarah Long, Colleen Lynch, Kate Schowe

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: amazona vitatta, captive population management, poplink, risk analysis, zoorisk

2014

Apes finding ants: Predator–prey dynamics in a chimpanzee habitat in Nigeria

Authors: Alejandra Pascual-Garrido, Buba Umaru, Oliver Allon, Volker Sommer

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: army ants, chimpanzee, insectivory, predation, primate archaeology

2013

Salmon Fishing by Bears and the Dawn of Cooperative Predation

Authors: Stephen F. Stringham

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: black bear, onchorynchous, optimal foraging, salmon, ursus americanus

2012

Brown Bear Conservation and the Ghost of Persecution Past

Authors: A. Zedrosser, S.M.J.G. Steyaert, H. Gossow, J.E. Swenson

Publication/Journal: Biological Conservation

Keywords: brown bear, conservation, human selection, persecution, reproduction

2011

Aquaculture and restocking: implications for conservation and welfare

Authors: V.A. Braithwaite, AGV Salvanes

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, aquaculture, conservation, fish farming, restocking, stock enhancement

2010

Wild animal conservation and welfare in agricultural systems

Authors: F. Mathews

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, culling, disease, habitat fragmentation, pesticides, stress

2010

Captive breeding and rearing of critically endangered Mauritius fodies Foudia rubra for reintroduction

Authors: Andrew Cristinacce, Amanda Ladkoo, Richard Switzer, Lara Jordan, Vanessa Vencatasamy, Frederique de Ravel Koenig, Carl Jones, Diana Bell

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: captive breeding, foudia, hand rearing, harvesting, reintroduction

2008

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