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Baker, L., King, B. J., & Lynn, W. S. (2024). Rethinking Animal Consciousness Research to Prioritize Well-Being. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 1-5.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963180124000501
Baker, L. et al. (2025). Autonomy: An Indicator of Wellbeing in Rewilded Asian Elephants Connected to Karen Communities in Thailand. Society & Animals, 1–26.
Baker, L., et al. (2025). The complexity of foraging and its role in elephant wellbeing. In E. Laws, et a. (Eds.), Elephant Welfare in Global Tourism (pp. 37-55). CABI.
Baker, L. (Ed.). (2025). Wild Animal Wellbeing. Springer. Forthcoming.
Armatas, C. A., & Borrie, W. T. (2025). A pragmatist ecological economics-Normative foundations and a framework for actionable knowledge. Ecological Economics.
Coghlan, S., & Cardilini, A. (2024). The use and abuse of moral theories in conservation debate about killing animals. Conservation Biology, 38(4), e14280.
Major, E. (2024). Slayers, rippers, and blitzes: Dark humor and the justification of cruelty to possums in online media in New Zealand. Frontiers in Communication, 1–14.
Saville, S., Cardilini, A. P. A., & Mocatta, G. (2024). Ignoring the cow in the room: Australian media representation of animal agriculture and climate change. researchsquare.com.
Sutton, Z., Cardilini, A., & Hall, K. (2024). A multispecies right to the city? Reimagining the speculative narratives of urban sustainability. Animals and science fiction.
Coghlan, S., & Cardilini, A. (2025). Animal privacy and information technology. Philosophy & Technology.
Derham, T., Mathews, F., & Johnson, C. N. (2025). Rewilding and Indigenous community-led land care. Conservation Letters, 18, e13090.
Lynn, W. S., Baker, L., Santiago-Ávila, F. J., & Stewart, K. L. (2023). Ethics, Wellbeing and Wild Lives. In A. H. Fine, M. Mueller, Z. Ng, J. M. Peralta, & A. Beck (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook on Human-Animal Interactions, Interventions and Anthrozoology (pp. 438-452). Routledge.
Lynn, W. S. (2025). Chickadee was Never a Feathered Machine. Issues in Science and Technology, XLI(4).
https://issues.org/evolving-view-animal-minds-keim-forum/
Lynn, W. S. (2025). Killing barred owls to save spotted owls is a moral atrocity. The Ecological Citizen., 8(2), epub–136.
Major, E. (2025). Brushtail possums and species-inclusive social work in Aotearoa New Zealand. Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 37(1), 96–108.
Straka, T. M., Coleman, J., Macdonald, E. A., Rogge, S., Kingston, T., & Jacobs, M. H. (2024). Beyond biophobia: positive appraisal of bats among German residents during the COVID-19 pandemic-with consequences for conservation intentions. Biodiversity and Conservation, 1-17.
Straka, T. M., Glahe, C., Dietrich, U., Bui, M., & Kowarik, I. (2025). From nature experience to pro-conservation action: How generational amnesia and declining nature-relatedness shape behaviour intentions of adolescents and adults. Ambio, 1-20.
Straka, T.M., Radchuk, V., Kowarik, I., von der Lippe, M. & Buchholz, S. (2025). Urbanization impacts top predators and alters biotic interactions in predator-prey-mutualistic communities in urban dry grasslands. Ecology and Evolution, 15(1), e70791.
Lynn, W. S., Baker, L., Borrie, W. T., Cardilini, A. P. A., & et al. (2025). Compassionate Conservation in Practice: A Values-driven, Interdisciplinary, Pluralistic, and Deliberative Community. Biological Conservation, 303(2025), 111002.
Cardilini, A., Baker, L., Lynn, W. S., Borrie, W., & et al. (2025). Compassionate Conservation Practice: Supporting Diverse Conservation Actions But Context Matters. Biological Conservation, 313.
Urbanik, J., Isaacs, J., Tovar, D., & Lynn, W. S. (2025). Engineering in a Multispecies World: Animal Geographies, Ethics, and Place. In Animals, Ethics and Engineering. Jenny Stanford.
Wellmann, T., Knapp, S., Albert, C., Egerer, M., Fischer, L. K., Kaiser, J., Kramer-Schadt, S., Mascarenhas, A., Ristok, C., Sporbert, M., Straka, T.M., Strohbach, M.W., Bleidorn, C., Maylin, J.M., Xylander, W.E.R., Keil, P., Haase, D. (2025). Status and trends of Germany’s urban biodiversity: A nationwide assessment and identified knowledge gaps. Basic and Applied Ecology.
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