Wild animal welfare: a bibliography

This bibliography is primarily based on Publications in English on the suffering of animals in the wild and the ways to help them, Ethical interventions in the wild, and the research that Aron Vallinder and I did for a paper on wild animal welfare that we once planned to write. If you know of relevant material not included in the list below, please let me know.

• Elisa Aaltola, Animal ethics and the argument from absurdity, Environmental values, vol. 19, no. 1, 2010, pp. 79–98
• Peter Alward, The naïve argument against moral vegetarianism, Environmental values, vol. 9, no. 1, 2000, pp. 81–89
• David Benatar, Why the naïve argument against moral vegetarianism really is naïve, Environmental values, vol. 10, no. 2001, 2001, pp. 103–112
• Bernice Bovenkerk et al., To act or not to act? sheltering animals from the wild: A pluralistic account of a conflict between animal and environmental ethics, Ethics, Place & Environment, vol. 6, no. 1, 2003, pp. 13–26
• Stijn Bruers, The predation and procreation problems: Persistent intuitions gone wild, Relations, no. 3, 2015, pp. 85–91
• Max Carpendale, Welfare biology as an extension of biology: interview with Yew-Kwang Ng, Relations, vol. 3, no. 2, 2015, pp. 197–202
• Stephen R. L. Clark, The rights of wild things, Inquiry, vol. 22, no. 1-4, 1979, pp. 171–188
• Matthew Clarke and Yew-Kwang Ng, Population dynamics and animal welfare: issues raised by the culling of kangaroos in Puckapunyal, Social choice and welfare, vol. 27, no. 2, 2006, pp. 407–422
• Tyler Cowen, Policing nature, Environmental ethics, vol. 25, no. 2, 2003, pp. 169–182
• Luciano Carlos Cunha, If natural entities have intrinsic value, should we then abstain from helping animals who are victims of natural processes?, Relations, no. 3, 2015, pp. 51–63
• Richard Dawkins, God's utility function, Scientific American, vol. 273, no. 5, 1995, pp. 80–85
• Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka, Zoopolis: A political theory of animal rights, Oxford, 2011
• Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka, A Defense of Animal Citizens and Sovereigns, Law, Ethics and Philosophy, vol. 1, 2013, pp. 143–160
• Daniel Dorado, Ethical interventions in the wild: An annotated bibliography, Relations, vol. 3, no. 3, 2015, pp. 219–238
• Rainer Ebert and Tibor R. Machan, Innocent threats and the moral problem of carnivorous animals, Journal of applied philosophy, vol. 29, no. 2, 2012, pp. 146–159
• Jennifer Everett, Environmental ethics, animal welfarism, and the problem of predation: a Bambi lover's respect for nature, Ethics & the environment, vol. 6, no. 1, 2001, pp. 42–67
• Catia Faria and Eze Paez, Animals in need: The problem of wild animal suffering and intervention in nature, Relations: Beyond Anthropocentrism, vol. 3, no. 1, 2015, pp. 7–13
• Catia Faria, Making a difference on behalf of animals living in the wild: Interview with Jeff McMahan, Relations, vol. 3, no. 1, 2015, pp. 81–84
• Catia Faria, Disentangling obligations of assistance: A reply to Clare Palmer’s “Against the view that we are usually required to assist wild animals”, Relations, no. 3, 2015, pp. 211–218
• David S. Favre, Wildlife rights: the ever-widening circle, Environmental law, vol. 9, no. 241, 1979, pp. 241–281
• Charles K. Fink, The predation argument, Between the species, vol. 13, no. 5, 2005, pp. 1–16
• Stephen Jay Gould, Nonmoral nature, Natural History, vol. 91, 1982, pp. 19–26
• John Hadley, The duty to aid nonhuman animals in dire need, Journal of Applied Philosophy, vol. 23, 2006, pp. 445–451
• Ned Hettinger, Valuing predation in Rolston's environmental ethics: Bambi lovers versus tree huggers, Environmental ethics, vol. 19, no. 1, 1994, pp. 3–20
• Alison Hills, Utilitarianism, contractualism and demandingness, The Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 60, no. 239, 2010, pp. 225–242
• Oscar Horta, Disvalue in nature and intervention, Pensata animal, vol. 34, 2010
• Oscar Horta, The ethics of the ecology of fear against the nonspeciesist paradigm: A shift in the aims of intervention in nature, Between the Species: An Online Journal for the Study of Philosophy and Animals, vol. 13, no. 10, 2010, pp. 163–187
• Oscar Horta, Debunking the idyllic view of natural processes: Population dynamics and suffering in the wild, Télos, vol. 17, no. 1, 2010, pp. 73–88
• Oscar Horta, Zoopolis, intervention, and the state of nature, Law, Ethics, and Philosophy, vol. 1, no. 1, 2013, pp. 113–125
• Oscar Horta, The problem of evil in nature: evolutionary bases of the prevalence of disvalue, Relations, vol. 30, no. 3, 2015, pp. 17–32
• Michael Hutchins and Christen Wemmer, Wildlife conservation and animal rights: Are they compatible?, in M. W. Fox and L. D. Mickley (eds.) Advances in Animal Welfare Science 1986/87, Dordrecht, 1987, pp. 111–137
• Dale Jamieson, Rights, justice, and duties to provde assistance: A critique of Regan's theory of rights, Ethics, vol. 100, no. 2, 1990, pp. 349–362
• J. K. Kirkwood and A. W. Sainsbury, Ethics of interventions for the welfare of free-living wild animals, Animal Welfare, vol. 5, no. 3, 1996, pp. 235–243
• T. Bruce Lauber et al., The role of ethical judgments related to wildlife fertility control, Society & Natural Resources, vol. 20, no. 2, 2007, pp. 119–133
• Adriano Mannino, Humanitarian intervention in nature: Crucial questions and probable answers, Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism, vol. 3, no. 1, 2015, pp. 107–118
• Leah McKelvie, Seeking to increase awareness of speciesism and its impact on all animals: A report on ‘animal ethics’, Relations, no. 3, 2015, pp. 101–105
• Jeff McMahan, The meat eaters, The New York times, September 19, 2010
• Jeff McMahan, Predators: A response, The New York times, September 28, 2010
• Jeff McMahan, The moral problem of predation, in Andrew Chignell, Terence Cuneo, and Matthew Halteman (eds.) Philosophy comes to dinner: Arguments about the ethics of eating, New York, 2015, pp. 268–294
• Ole Martin Moen, The Ethics of Wild Animal Suffering, Etikk i praksis - Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics, no. 1, 2016, pp. 91–104
• Richard Thornhill and Michael Morris, Animal liberationist responses to non-anthropogenic animal suffering, Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology, vol. 10, no. 3, 2006, pp. 355–379
• Julia Mosquera, The harm they inflict when values conflict: Why diversity does not matter, Relations, no. 3, 2015, pp. 65–77
• Albert W. Musschenga, Naturalness: Beyond animal welfare, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, vol. 15, no. 2, 2002, pp. 171–186
• Arne Naess, Should we try to relieve clear cases of extreme suffering in nature?, Pan ecology, vol. 6, no. 1, 1991, pp. 1–5
• Yew-Kwang Ng, Towards welfare biology: evolutionary economics of animal consciousness and suffering, Biology and philosophy, vol. 10, no. 3, 1995, pp. 255–285
• Eze Paez, Intuitions gone astray: Between implausibility and speciesism, Relations, no. 3, 2015, pp. 93–99
• Eze Paez, Refusing help and inflicting harm: A critique of the environmentalist view, Relations, no. 3, 2015, pp. 165–178
• Clare Palmer, Against the view that we are normally required to assist wild animals, Relations, no. 3, 2015, pp. 203–210
• David Pearce, A welfare state for elephants? A case study of compassionate stewardship, Relations, vol. 3, no. 2, 2015, pp. 153–164
• Ty Raterman and The University of North Texas Center for Environmental Philosophy, An environmentalist's lament on predation, Environmental Ethics, vol. 30, no. 4, 2008, pp. 417–434
• Tom Regan, The case for animal rights: updated with a new preface, Berkeley, 2004
• Bernard E. Rollin, Animal rights and human morality, Buffalo, 1981
• Holmes Rolston, Disvalues in nature, The monist, vol. 75, no. 2, 1992, pp. 250–278
• Mark Sagoff, Animal liberation and environmental ethics: bad marriage, quick divorce, Osgoode Hall law journal, vol. 22, no. 1, 1984, pp. 297–307
• Steve F. Sapontzis, Predation, Ethics and animals, vol. 5, no. 2, 1984, pp. 27–38
• Steve F. Sapontzis, Morals, reason, and animals, Philadelphia, 1987
• Aaron Simmons, Animals, predators, the right to life and the duty to save lives, Ethics & the environment, vol. 14, no. 1, 2009, pp. 15–27
• Peter Singer, Food for thought: Reply, The New York Review of Books, 1973
• Thomas M. Sittler-Adamczewski, Consistent vegetarianism and the suffering of wild animals, Journal of practical ethics, vol. 4, no. 2, 2016
• Beril İdemen Sözmen, Harm in the wild: Facing non-human suffering in nature, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, vol. 16, no. 5, 2013, pp. 1075–1088
• Beril İdemen Sözmen, Relations and moral obligations towards other animals, Relations, no. 3, 2015, pp. 179–193
• Brian Tomasik, The importance of wild-animal suffering, Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism, vol. 3, no. 2, 2015, pp. 133–152
• Mikel Torres, The case for intervention in nature on behalf of animals: a critical review of the main arguments against intervention, Relations, vol. 3, no. 1, 2015, pp. 33–49
• Stephen M. Young, On the status of vermin, Between the Species: An Online Journal for the Study of Philosophy and Animals, vol. 13, no. 6, 2006

With thanks to Tom Bradschetl and Ricardo Torres.