1. Emerging laws must not protect stray cats and their impacts
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Martina Carrete, Miguel Clavero, Eneko Arrondo, Anna Traveset, Rubén Bernardo‐Madrid, Montserrat Vilà, Julio Blas, Manuel Nogales, Miguel Delibes, Alberto García‐Rodríguez, Dailos Hernández‐Brito, Pedro Romero‐Vidal, José L. Tella, Carrete, Martina, Bernardo-Madrid, Rubén, Nogales, Manuel, Hernández-Brito, Dailos, Carrete, Martina [0000-0002-0491-2950], Bernardo-Madrid, Rubén [0000-0003- 2026-5690], Nogales, Manuel [0000-0002-5327-3104], and Hernández-Brito, Dailos [0000-0002- 5203-3512]
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Global and Planetary Change ,Ecology ,Emerging laws ,stray cats ,not protect ,Environmental Science (miscellaneous) ,impacts ,Nature and Landscape Conservation - Abstract
Our moral circles—that is, the entities believed as worthy of moral concern and thus deserving moral considerations—have historically expanded beyond humans to include also nonhuman beings (Crimston et al., 2018). As a result, various emerging legal instruments around the world have been granting rights to animals. However, the inclusion of animals within moral circles is subjected to important biases, with a preference for charismatic, familiar, and beautiful vertebrates (Klebl et al., 2021). We argue that legal instruments embracing such biases may jeopardize biodiversity conservation., The authors would like to thank all researchers who have kindly contributed to the discussion of this conservation problem in Spain.
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- 2022