A Protocol for the Ethical Assessment of Wild Animal-Visitor Interactions (AVIP) Evaluating Animal Welfare, Education, and Conservation Outcomes.
Giraffa camelopardalis
One Welfare
animal welfare
animal–visitor interactions
conservation education
ethical matrix
ethics
risk assessment
wildlife tourism
zoo visitors
Journal
Animals : an open access journal from MDPI
ISSN: 2076-2615
Titre abrégé: Animals (Basel)
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101635614
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
25 Jul 2019
25 Jul 2019
Historique:
received:
23
05
2019
revised:
18
07
2019
accepted:
22
07
2019
entrez:
28
7
2019
pubmed:
28
7
2019
medline:
28
7
2019
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Due to the popularity of wild animal-visitor interactions (AVIs), there is a need for an ethical assessment of their impact on animal welfare, education, and conservation. The protocol presented in this study is designed to evaluate such interactions on an integrated level, using a transparent analysis of all the aspects involved, including all the stakeholders and the potential conflicts of values. The protocol consists of a six-step process encompassing dedicated data acquisition and a specific ethical assessment. When the protocol was applied to assess a "giraffe feeding" interaction, steps devoted to data acquisition found that animal welfare risks were low, and that visitors described giraffes with emotionally linked descriptors more often after the interaction. The net promoter score, which refers to how likely visitors would recommend to a friend to join the animal-visitor interaction, was 74%. The subsequent ethical assessment, which consisted of a comparison of the results of the previous steps with an ethical matrix highlighting the ideal situation for all stakeholders' interests, allowed the overall identification of the ethical concerns entailed by the interaction. A final ethical checklist of the examined AVI had a "yes" in entries regarding animal welfare, emotional, and conservation mindedness outcomes and ethical assessment.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31349726
pii: ani9080487
doi: 10.3390/ani9080487
pmc: PMC6721246
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Authors have no conflicts of interests.
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