Conference on Animal Welfare and Conservation: Ethical Paradoxes in Modern Zoos and Aquariums, Spring 1992

动物福利和保护会议：现代动物园和水族馆的道德悖论，1992 年春季

• 批准号: 9112807
• 负责人: Bryan Norton
• 金额: $ 5.88万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-12-01 至 1993-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9112807&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Animal; Welfare; Conservation; Ethical

Georgia Institute of Technology, in cooperation with the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums (AAZPA) and Zoo Atlanta, will host a three-day conference to examine the impacts on zoo policies of changing moral views regarding treatment of animals. Their expanding agenda in conservation is viewed as one aspect of the changing role of zoos and aquariums in response to broader moral challenges by animal welfare groups, animal liberation advocates, and radical environmentalists. In particular, the conference will consider ethical issues in policies concerning the development and implementation of Species Survival Plans, intended to provide buffers against extinction through captive breeding programs and the careful management of genetic resources. The proposed conference will assemble zoo professionals, professional ethicists, and conservation biologists to discuss the difficult ethical issues -- regarding capture of members of endangered species or the fate of zoo animals who have already contributed to their species' gene pool, for example -- that arise in the administration of these plans. The conference will result in a position paper to be submitted to the AAZPA Board of Directors for discussion and adoption and the conference presentations will be edited for publication in book form. This project allows a highly qualified and diversified group of researchers, zoo administrators, and moral advocates for animals to address theoretical and practical issues in the development of ethical policies and practices for the treatement of animals. The principal investigators and conference participants are well qualified; institutional support is very good. Guidelines and a volume of general interest to the field will result. The budget request is reasonable. Support is recommended.

佐治亚理工学院将与美国动物园和水族馆协会（AAZPA）和亚特兰大动物园合作，主办一个为期三天的会议，以审查关于对待动物的道德观念的改变对动物园政策的影响。动物园和水族馆不断扩大的保护议程被视为动物园和水族馆角色转变的一个方面，以应对动物福利组织、动物解放倡导者和激进环保主义者提出的更广泛的道德挑战。会议将特别考虑与物种生存计划的制定和实施有关的政策中的伦理问题，旨在通过圈养繁殖计划和对遗传资源的精心管理提供防止灭绝的缓冲。拟议中的会议将召集动物园专业人员、职业伦理学家和保护生物学家，讨论在实施这些计划时出现的棘手的伦理问题，例如，关于捕获濒危物种成员或已经为该物种基因库做出贡献的动物园动物的命运。会议将产生一份意见书，提交给AAZPA董事会讨论和通过，会议报告将被编辑成书出版。这个项目允许高素质和多元化的研究人员、动物园管理人员和动物道德倡导者在制定动物待遇的伦理政策和实践方面解决理论和实践问题。主要研究人员和与会人员均具备良好的资质；制度支持非常好。将产生指导方针和该领域普遍感兴趣的卷。预算要求是合理的。建议使用Support。