Research Ethics

In this week’s episode, Jonah and Mariana discuss the institutional systems that oversee animal welfare in field research, how they work, how they sometimes don’t work, and how we might even improve them. They also share their own experiences witnessing ethical violations in wildlife research.

Sources & Links

For today’s news: 1 in 4 Birds Gone Since 1970; Winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year; Natural History Museum Wildlife Photographer Contest

For further reading: McMahon et al. (2012) on the Bateson’s Decision Cube; and Paul et al. (2015) on Animal Welfare Policy

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