The elephant (head) in the room: A critical look at trophy hunting
The elephant (head) in the room: A critical look at trophy hunting
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DOI：
10.1111/conl.12565
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发表时间：
2019-01-01
影响因子：
8.5
通讯作者：
Wallach, Arian D.
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作者：
Batavia, Chelsea;Nelson, Michael Paul;Wallach, Arian D.
战利品狩猎在最近的学术文献和大众媒体中占据了突出的地位。在科学保护文献中，研究人员通常支持或赞同将其作为保护资金支持的来源。尽管作者有时承认，战利品狩猎面临着许多公众的强烈反对，通常是由于与道德有关的未指明的原因，但这些道德关切的性质和含义都没有得到实质性的解决。我们将野生动物“战利品”作为伦理不适和公众反对的潜在来源确定为核心行为。我们强调，战利品狩猎需要猎人支付费用杀死动物，并声称其身体或身体部位作为征服的战利品。将这种做法置于沙文主义、殖民主义和人类中心主义的西方文化叙事中，我们认为战利品狩猎在道德上是不合适的。我们建议，在动物保护团体支持战利品狩猎之前，应该探索并断然排除其他可行的保护和社区发展策略。如果野生动物保护广泛且不可避免地依赖于战利品狩猎制度，自然资源保护主义者应该接受这种做法，但要对悲剧有适当的认识，并有适当的悔恨。
Trophy hunting has occupied a prominent position in recent scholarly literature and popular media. In the scientific conservation literature, researchers are generally supportive of or sympathetic to its usage as a source of monetary support for conservation. Although authors at times acknowledge that trophy hunting faces strong opposition from many members of the public, often for unspecified reasons associated with ethics, neither the nature nor the implications of these ethical concerns have been substantively addressed. We identify the central act of wildlife "trophy" taking as a potential source of ethical discomfort and public opposition. We highlight that trophy hunting entails a hunter paying a fee to kill an animal and claim its body or body parts as a trophy of conquest. Situating this practice in a Western cultural narrative of chauvinism, colonialism, and anthropocentrism, we argue trophy hunting is morally inappropriate. We suggest alternative strategies for conservation and community development should be explored and decisively ruled out as viable sources of support before the conservation community endorses trophy hunting. If wildlife conservation is broadly and inescapably dependent on the institution of trophy hunting, conservationists should accept the practice only with a due appreciation of tragedy, and proper remorse.