This episode dives into the principles of compassionate conservation, emphasizing the importance of recognizing individual lives and experiences in conservation efforts. Daniel Ramp outlines how traditional conservation often overlooks the welfare of specific animals, leading to harmful outcomes, and presents compelling arguments for integrating compassion into conservation policies and practices. 

Date Recorded: 1 November 2024. 

Daniel Ramp is a behavioural ecologist, welfare expert, and conservation biologist specializing in transdisciplinary approaches to coexistence and sustainability. He is the Founder and Director of the Centre for Compassionate Conservation at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), where he is an Associate Professor in the Transdisciplinary School. He leads the development of research, teaching, and public outreach in the centre, where the goal is to stimulate innovation, novel research, and conservation practices that promote multispecies flourishing. Dan conducts research on compassionate conservation, wild animal welfare, environmental ethics, and wildlife ecology, while also collaborating widely with other disciplines. 

Featured: 

• Centre for Compassionate Conservation 
• IUCN Red List
• Ecology. Whose conservation? By Georgina Mace.
• Preventing extinction in an age of species migration and planetary change by Erick Lundgren et al. 
• Failing Forward: The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Conservation by Robert Fletcher.
• The elephant (head) in the room: A critical look at trophy hunting by Chelsea Batavia et al.

Thank you to A.P.P.L.E for sponsoring this podcast and ROH Indies for sponsoring this season. Gordon Clarke for the bed music, Jeremy John for the logo, Rebecca Shen for her design work, Rashmi Singh Rana for the Animal Highlight. This episode was edited and produced by the host Claudia Towne Hirtenfelder. 

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