46 research outputs found
Ethical reasoning and participatory approach towards achieving regulatory processes for animal-visitor interactions (AVIs) in South Africa.
No full textSouth Africa's wide range of animal facilities offers many different types of Animal-Visitor Interactions, wild animal encounters where animals and visitors come closer than in normal circumstances. The aim of this study was to provide a map of the ethically relevant aspects involved in AVIs in South Africa as a first step towards regulating these activities. A participative approach based on the ethical matrix, a tool which organizes the ethical standings of the stakeholders by three bearing ethical principles (wellbeing, autonomy, fairness), was applied. The matrix was populated through a top-down approach and refined by engaging stakeholders in a workshop and two online self-administrated surveys. The outcome is a map of the value demands concerning Animal Visitor Interactions. This map shows how the ethical acceptability of AVIs is linked to different relevant issues like animal welfare, education, biodiversity conservation, sustainability, human competency, facility mission, impact on scientific research and socio-economic outcomes. In addition, results highlighted the importance of cooperation among stakeholders and suggested that attention for animal welfare can inform decision making and inspire a multidisciplinary approach in implementing a regulatory frame for South African wildlife facilities
The Animal-Visitor Interaction Protocol (AVIP) for the assessment of Lemur catta walk-in enclosure in zoos
No full textAnimal-Visitor Interactions (AVI) are activities offered by zoos and other tourism facilities, in which visitors come into close contact with animals. These activities can promote conservational and educational content, raise conservation mindedness and responsibility for the environment and animal welfare, but if not properly managed can jeopardize visitors' and animals' well-being and conservation efforts. The Animal-Visitor Interaction assessment Protocol (AVIP) has been designed to perform an integrated and multidisciplinary assessment of these activities, encompassing the "One Health, One Welfare" approach. AVIP throughout six different steps allows to assess the effects of AVIs both on animals, visitors, and the staff involved. Results can assist zoos to improve management decisions, ensure a transparent evaluation of their activities and promote conservation education goals. Lemurs walk-in enclosures have become increasingly popular among zoos, nevertheless studies focused on their assessment are still scarce. To validate AVIP to this particular AVI, we applied it to assess a walk-in enclosure hosting five Lemur catta in an Italian zoo. Results of behavioural and physiological analyses suggested no changes in animal welfare level and the Animal Welfare Risk Assessment showed low animal welfare risks. Two Visitor Experience Surveys were used to interview 291 visitors, showing that the assessed AVI could help promote the zoo's conservation objectives and visitor education. Risk Assessment found low and medium risks to the health and safety of visitors. Results were then combined to perform a final ethical assessment. Some potential ethical concerns were detected, but the outcomes indicated that these conflicts were well managed. In the context of recent findings AVIP demonstrated its potential for application also in assessing AVIs involving primates. Our findings confirmed the usefulness of AVIP in assessing and monitoring AVIs, allowing to gain key information in a single process on multiple welfare-related parameters, educational impact, safety of the main stakeholders involved, and ethical concerns
Application of decision tools to ethical analysis in biodiversity conservation
No full textAchieving ethically responsible decisions is crucial for the success of biodiversity conservation projects. We adapted the ethical matrix, decision tree, and Bateson's cube to assist in the ethical analysis of complex conservation scenarios by structuring these tools so that they can implement the different value dimensions (environmental, social, and animal welfare) involved in conservation ethics. We then applied them to a case study relative to the decision-making process regarding whether or not to continue collecting biomaterial on the oldest of the two remaining northern white rhinoceroses (Ceratotherium simum cotton:), a functionally extinct subspecies of the white rhinoceros. We used the ethical matrix to gather ethical pros and cons and as a starting point for a participatory approach to ethical decision-making. We used decision trees to compare the different options at stake on the basis of a set of ethical desiderata. We used Bateson's cube to establish a threshold of ethical acceptability and model the results of a simple survey. The application of these tools proved to be pivotal in structuring the decision-making process and in helping reach a shared, reasoned, and transparent decision on the best option from an ethical point of view among those available
La glucemia en la enfermedad de Carrión y en la Bartonellosis del perro
No full textThe author studied the glycemia, prior to food being taken, in normal subjects, in patients suffering from Oroya Fever, and in dogs infected with Bartonella canis. 1. A moderate hyperglycemia, can be proved to exist, with certain frequency, in the hematic stage of Carríon\u27s disease. 2. These changes in the glycemia, are also present, in the experimental dog Bartonelosis, during the stage of intense anemia. 3. An occasionally severe hypoglycemia, probably causing the animals death, often accompanies the terminal stage of serious cases of dog Bartonelosis, and follows the hyperglycemia whenever these two phenomena occur in one and the same case. 4. The hyperglycemia proved to exist both in subjects suffering Irom Carrion\u27s disease, and in dogs seized with Bartonelosis can be explained as being due to an exagerated hepatic glycogenolysis, stimulated by the infectious state and also possibly by the anaemic anoxia. 5. The exhaustion of the glycogene reserve of the liver, caused mainly by an over-consumption of glucose, and by the reduced capacity of the liver to fix this substance, and the probable inhibition of the neoglycogenolysis, would be the factors causing the hypoglycemic condition occurring in serious cases of dog Bartonelosis.Se ha estudiado la glucemia en ayunas en sujetos normales, enfermos carriónicos y perros infestados con Bartonella canis. En estos últimos se ha realizado además dosajes de glucógeno hepático y pruebas de tolerancia a la glucosa. Los resultados obtenidos permiten las siguientes conclusiones: 1.Una hiperglucemia de grado moderado puede ser constatada, con alguna frecuencia, en la fase hemática de la Enfermedad de Carrión. 2. Esta alteración de la glucemia se presenta también en la Bartonellosis experimental del perro, durante la fase de anemia intensa. 3. Una hipoglucemia, a veces de grado severo y responsable probablemente de la muerte del animal, acompaña con frecuencia a la etapa terminal de la Bartonellosis grave del perro, sucediendo a la hiperglucemia cuando ambos trastornos se presentan en el mismo caso. 4. La hiperglucemia constatada tanto en el enfermo carriónico como en el perro bartonellósico, puede ser explicada por una exagerada glucogenolisis hepática, estimulada por el estado infeccioso y quizás también por la anoxia anémica. 5. Un agotamiento de las reservas de glucógeno en el hígado - producido principalmente por un mayor consumo de glucosa y una disminución de la capacidad del mismo para fijar aquella sustancia - y una probable inhibición de la neoglucogenia, serían los factores responsables del estado hipoglucémico que se presenta en la etapa terminal de la Bartonellosis grave del perro
Extension and validation of a novel destination brand equity model.
No full textThis study develops and tests a novel destination brand equity model and compares its validity with Aaker’s (1991) brand equity model, which is popular in tourism. The data were collected in Indonesia (n = 250) and the United Kingdom (n = 246). The results confirm validity and hierarchical structure of the destination brand equity model. The destination brand equity model has seven dimensions: brand awareness, physical quality, service interaction quality, brand self-congruence, brand identification, destination brand trust, and destination brand loyalty. The first five brand equity dimensions exert positive influences on destination brand trust and destination brand loyalty. The findings show that the psychometric properties of the destination brand equity model outperform Aaker’s (1991) model. The study discusses theoretical and practical implications of the destination brand equity model for destination marketing and management.The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study was supported by the European Regional Development Fund Operational Programme of Andalucia 2014-2020, in the frame of the Andalusian Plan for Research, Development and Innovation (PAIDI 2020) (Grant: P20_00457), and by the University of Malaga’s Research and Transfer Plan, Andalusia Tech (Spain)
Suggestions given by respondents in question n. 25.
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Distribution of answers to question n. 20.
No full textSouth Africa’s wide range of animal facilities offers many different types of Animal-Visitor Interactions, wild animal encounters where animals and visitors come closer than in normal circumstances. The aim of this study was to provide a map of the ethically relevant aspects involved in AVIs in South Africa as a first step towards regulating these activities. A participative approach based on the ethical matrix, a tool which organizes the ethical standings of the stakeholders by three bearing ethical principles (wellbeing, autonomy, fairness), was applied. The matrix was populated through a top-down approach and refined by engaging stakeholders in a workshop and two online self-administrated surveys. The outcome is a map of the value demands concerning Animal Visitor Interactions. This map shows how the ethical acceptability of AVIs is linked to different relevant issues like animal welfare, education, biodiversity conservation, sustainability, human competency, facility mission, impact on scientific research and socio-economic outcomes. In addition, results highlighted the importance of cooperation among stakeholders and suggested that attention for animal welfare can inform decision making and inspire a multidisciplinary approach in implementing a regulatory frame for South African wildlife facilities.</div
Management clusters and votes (OM = Owners and Manager; R = Researchers; HKS = Handlers/Keepers/Staff; GR = government Representatives; V = veterinarians).
No full textManagement clusters and votes (OM = Owners and Manager; R = Researchers; HKS = Handlers/Keepers/Staff; GR = government Representatives; V = veterinarians).</p
Animal management issues.
No full textSouth Africa’s wide range of animal facilities offers many different types of Animal-Visitor Interactions, wild animal encounters where animals and visitors come closer than in normal circumstances. The aim of this study was to provide a map of the ethically relevant aspects involved in AVIs in South Africa as a first step towards regulating these activities. A participative approach based on the ethical matrix, a tool which organizes the ethical standings of the stakeholders by three bearing ethical principles (wellbeing, autonomy, fairness), was applied. The matrix was populated through a top-down approach and refined by engaging stakeholders in a workshop and two online self-administrated surveys. The outcome is a map of the value demands concerning Animal Visitor Interactions. This map shows how the ethical acceptability of AVIs is linked to different relevant issues like animal welfare, education, biodiversity conservation, sustainability, human competency, facility mission, impact on scientific research and socio-economic outcomes. In addition, results highlighted the importance of cooperation among stakeholders and suggested that attention for animal welfare can inform decision making and inspire a multidisciplinary approach in implementing a regulatory frame for South African wildlife facilities.</div
Customized final EM.
No full textSouth Africa’s wide range of animal facilities offers many different types of Animal-Visitor Interactions, wild animal encounters where animals and visitors come closer than in normal circumstances. The aim of this study was to provide a map of the ethically relevant aspects involved in AVIs in South Africa as a first step towards regulating these activities. A participative approach based on the ethical matrix, a tool which organizes the ethical standings of the stakeholders by three bearing ethical principles (wellbeing, autonomy, fairness), was applied. The matrix was populated through a top-down approach and refined by engaging stakeholders in a workshop and two online self-administrated surveys. The outcome is a map of the value demands concerning Animal Visitor Interactions. This map shows how the ethical acceptability of AVIs is linked to different relevant issues like animal welfare, education, biodiversity conservation, sustainability, human competency, facility mission, impact on scientific research and socio-economic outcomes. In addition, results highlighted the importance of cooperation among stakeholders and suggested that attention for animal welfare can inform decision making and inspire a multidisciplinary approach in implementing a regulatory frame for South African wildlife facilities.</div
