PHIL 1180 Chapter Notes - Chapter Varner: National Audubon Society, Cotton Tail, Tom Regan
25 Oct 2016
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Therapeutic hunting - motivated by and designed to secure aggregate welfare of the target species and the integrity of its ecosystem. Subsistence hunting - hunting to secure food for humans. Sport hunting - maintaining religious or cultural traditions, reenacting national or evolutionary history, honing certain skills or securing trophy. hunting for sport vs hunting for ritual. Thesis: environmentalist and animal rights activists can agree on the moral necessity of therapeutic hunting of obligatory management species. Obligatory management species - tendency to overshoot the carrying capacity of its range - detrimental to future generations and other species. ungulates - hooded mammals, and elephants. management is envm necessary or obligatory. Permissive management species - one that does not normally exhibit that tendency. mourning doves, cotton tail rabbits. do not degrade habitat in ways that threaten future generations - what makes management permissible .
