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Human–Wildlife Interactions

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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