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

格鲁吉亚理工学院与美国 动物园和水族馆协会（AAZPA）和动物园 亚特兰大将举办为期三天的会议， 关于动物园改变对待动物的道德观念的政策， 动物 他们在保护方面不断扩大的议程被视为一个 动物园和水族馆的作用变化方面， 动物福利组织、动物保护组织和动物保护组织 自由主义者和激进的环保主义者。 在 特别是，会议将审议政策中的道德问题， 关于制定和执行《物种生存 计划，旨在提供缓冲，防止灭绝， 圈养繁殖计划和精心管理的遗传 资源 拟议中的会议将聚集动物园 专业人士，专业伦理学家和保护生物学家 讨论关于捕获 濒危物种的成员或动物园动物的命运， 已经为他们的物种基因库做出了贡献，例如-- 在这些计划的管理中出现的问题。 会议 将导致一份立场文件提交给AAZPA董事会 供董事会讨论通过， 发言稿将编辑成册出版。 该项目允许一个高素质和多元化的群体， 研究人员、动物园管理人员和动物道德倡导者 解决发展中的理论和实践问题， 保护动物的道德政策和实践。的 主要研究人员和会议参与者都很好， 合格;机构支持非常好。 准则和 将产生该领域普遍感兴趣的量。 预算 要求是合理的。 建议提供支持。

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.