Help shape ethical best practice for conservation – expert review requested by 20 May

We’re inviting expert reviewers to help strengthen a new best practice guidance document: Ethics for Wildlife Conservation. This resource is being developed to support conservation practitioners and organisations in making ethical decisions when faced with difficult dilemmas—where every option has both positive and negative consequences for people, wildlife, and ecosystems.

📝 What we’re asking:
Please review the document and add your comments directly using the commenting feature in Word.

📅 Deadline for comments:
20 May 2025

📂 To access the draft:
Please take one minute to fill out this short form (link to your form here). The form asks for your name, email, affiliation, and area of expertise. This helps us keep track of contributions so we can properly acknowledge all reviewers in the final publication.

📄 What’s in the draft:
The guidance includes:

• Clear definitions of values, morals, and ethics

• Nine ethical principles for conservation

• A structured process for making ethical decisions

• Real-world examples 

Your insights—whether as a conservation practitioner, ethicist, community leader, or researcher—will help ensure this guidance is both rigorous and practically useful across diverse conservation contexts.

Please feel free to share this invitation with others in your networks who may be interested in contributing.

Thank you for your time and support.

Adam