A Bear is not just a Bear: Recognizing the Individual in Wildlife Conservation
<p>Wildlife, the word itself, implies a collective. Indeed, as some would argue, wild animals are worth saving only as a collective. Consequently, as long as a population thrives or even persists, individual sentient beings don’t matter.</p>
<p>It is one of the <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14101" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">conservation dogmas</a> that the sole preoccupation of wildlife scientists should be ensuring that the population size is sufficient to maintain genetic diversity and avoid inbreeding. This size might differ, but all that counts is the long-term viability of a species and the health of ecosystems.</p>
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