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Stakeholder Perspectives on a Code of Practice with Legislative Status Relating to Flying-Fox Camp Management
Full text linkFlying-fox camps near human settlements represent a contentious issue that requires management to alleviate the impacts on communities. In New South Wales, land managers undertaking flying-fox camp management actions require a defence to a prosecution for an offence under the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 for those activities. During 2018, the New South Wales Government released a draft code of practice for public exhibition, which was proposed to be made under the Biodiversity Conservation Regulation 2017 and thus have legislative status to provide public land managers with an alternative to licensing for undertaking flying-fox camp management actions. During public exhibition, there were 99 public submissions received. The purpose of this paper was to examine stakeholder views on the proposed document and, more broadly, perspectives on flying-fox camp management expressed in public submissions. There were highly polarised views on both flying-foxes and their management and whether a code of practice with legislative status was appropriate for authorising flying-fox camp management actions. The majority of public submissions were not supportive of the draft code of practice, with many referring to the existing licensing framework as a more appropriate regulatory option. There were also concerns that the draft code of practice could potentially result in a marked increase in camp dispersals; however, this did not happen, most likely due to safeguards built into the resulting code of practice. This outcome demonstrates the importance of the public consultation process undertaken
Bobler og Perler. En barok allegori af Karel Du Jardin fra 1663
Full text linkTitle: Bubbles and Pearls. A Baroque Allegory by Karel Du Jardin, 1663An analysis of the oil painting Boy Blowing Soap Bubbles. Allegory on the Transitoriness and the Brevity of Life (in the National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen), signed and dated 1663 by the Dutch painter Karel Du Jardin (1626–1678), shows how two iconographical types, that of Fortune/Nemesis and that of a boy blowing soap bubbles are combined to form a new invention. The essay explores how Du Jardin’s painting expands and nuances the allegorical meaning of Vanitas by this combination of well-known visual sources. The meaning of the painting circles around one of the baroque era’s great tropes, to remember and search for Fides and not to let worldly riches forget her. This article also explores how a baroque Christian neostoic worldview might form part of the ideas and philosophy that underlie Du Jardin’s invention
Reflections on the Ethical Premises Underlying the Proposed UN Convention on Animal Health and Protection
Full text linkThis article examines the ethical underpinnings of the proposed UN Convention on Animal Health and Protection (UNCAHP), a framework treaty drafted by the Global Animal Law Association (GAL). The object of the draft treaty is, first, to establish for the first time an international animal protection regime comprehending all non-human animal species. It aims, secondly, to provide the animal pillar of the UN sustainable development agenda, which now encompasses only the human and nature aspects of life. These are challenging objectives, given the eclectic and fragmented way international law has previously tried to come to grips with animal ethics. The article, therefore, looks at UNCAHP from the perspective of animal ethics and asks how likely it is that, if the treaty were to be adopted, it would achieve its objectives in ways that are compatible with both with its own ambitions and the broader agenda of animal law
Navigating the International Legal Terrain for Animal Health and Protection: Specialist Agency or Framework Convention?
Full text linkThis article identifies and analyses key themes in the history of efforts to make international law an effective instrument for protecting animals and their health, as well as touching upon the positive spillovers this can have for human and environmental health. The pursuit of fragmented and inconsistent approaches has made animal protection a secondary consideration, at best, in international relations. Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and international non-government organisations (INGOs) have valiantly and persistently argued that there is a legal ‘gap’ in the protection of animals at an international level, but they have never had a strong institutional basis from which they could engage collectively and effectively with state parties. We argue that the adoption of a binding international instrument focused on animal protection would fill this gap and we evaluate one particular recent proposal: the draft United Nations Convention for Animal Health and Protection, sponsored by Global Animal Law
The UN-iversalization of Animal Welfare Law
Full text linkAdvancing the protection of animal beings is becoming a universal mission in this early twenty-first century. A few years ago, animal welfare was knocking at the door of the United Nations (UN). Today, it is entering this door. Animal lawyers and protectionists are working to support the full inclusion of animal welfare concerns into the agenda of the UN and its organizations, and to create a new UN-iversal regime. The protection of animal beings, long a missing piece of the international law puzzle, seems likely soon to take its place as a UN objective, alongside protection of human beings and the environment.
In this paper, the evolution of animal welfare law from the national level to the UN level is traced. The evidence that the subject is of growing interest and concern at the UN is briefly reviewed until showing that animal welfare is becoming a new UN objective. Overall, the case is made that animal welfare law is UN-iversalizing
The Seal of Dignity of Archbishop Olav of Nidaros (1350–1370). Reflections on its Iconography and Cultural Context
Full text linkMedieval seals provide interesting historical and art historical source material as they reflect a number of elements in medieval society, of which iconography is one. The imagery in the seal of dignity of Olav I, Archbishop of Nidaros (1350–1370), is an artwork of high quality. This article provides a detailed examination of the cultural context of the seal by bringing together earlier knowledge and some new insights. It discusses stylistic relations to comparable seals from different areas outside the Nidaros archdiocese. These are the seals of the Cardinal of San Clemente, the Bishop of Durham and Queen Blanche of Norway and Sweden. The great seal of Olav was innovative at the time in Norway. It was hagiographic with a suppliant bishop’s figure. It contained rich micro-architectural elements, and heraldry now formed part of the imagery of the seal. The stylistic connections presented in the article are a reminder of the significance of the long-distance travels of the medieval clergy and the resulting network of cultural interactions (including correspondence), especially during this period of increasing papal influence