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Wildlife Management Professionals Need to Redefine the Terms: Lethal Control, Nonlethal Control, and Live Trap
Date of this Version
Fall 2012
Document Type
Article
Citation
Human–Wildlife Interactions (Fall 2012) 6(2): article 15
doi: 10.26077/421g-ck25
Special topic: Brown tree snake
Abstract
I argue that the terms lethal control, nonlethal control, and live trap are no longer sufficiently precise for continued use in the scientific community. Their continued use confuses the public and allows animal protectionists to use them as cudgels in political discourse. Alternative terms are recommended to resolve the semantic and subsequent political issues surrounding the traditional terms.
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