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Killing for conservation: the scientific and ethical challenges of predator eradication

16:06 pm on 13 January 2019

With a panel of leading scholars, Kim Hill explores thorny questions, such as – what constitutes an invasive species? What are the best tools for the task? And is it possible to kill with kindness?

Photo: Peter Morrin

Listen to the discussion

Recorded by RNZ at the Society for Conservation Biology’s 2018 conference in Wellington.

Participants: BioHeritage Project Leader Dr Edy Macdonald, Professor Doug Armstrong, Dr Cilla Wehi and Professor James Maclaurin. (All four sit on the BioHeritage Bioethics Panel).

Photo: Hayley May