Value of species and the evolution of conservation ethics – Darragh Hare.

Conservation ethics (moral beliefs, attitudes, intuitions, and norms regarding other species) evolve to promote adaptive conservation behaviours, and will take on different contours in different places.

Integrating ecology and evolution into our understanding of conservation ethics can help explain why people value other species at all, why we value some species more strongly than others, and why this varies from place to place.

Join Darragh Hare of Cornell University for this interesting seminar and drinks afterwards, hosted by The Biodiversity Network

Related paper:  Darragh Hare, Bernd Blossey,  H. Kern Reeve  November 2018, Value of species and the evolution of conservation ethics. Royal Society Open Science Volume 5, Issue 11  https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.181038