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22 J. Int'l Wildlife L. & Pol'y 1 (2019)

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JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE LAW & POLICY
2019, VOL. 22, NO. 1, 1-32
https://doi.org/10.1080/13880292.2019.1616379


Routledge
Taylor& Francis Group


Brushes with the Law: A Conservation Scientist's
Perspective on Legal Solutions and Impediments
from Scottish Wildcats to African Lions*

D.W. Macdonald


   You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good
   society.                             -C. S. LEWIS, MERE CHRISTIANITY 73 (1952)



1. Introduction

The  intersection of wildlife management and environmental law stretches
back  many   centuries. In earlier times, regulation tended  to protect species
for the  benefit of the  human   elites who  wished   to hunt  them.  In  more
recent decades,  as the conservation  movement has emerged from its roots
in game  management (Adams, 2005), attention has shifted to a broader col-
lection of  organisms.  In  diverse geographies   across the  planet, new  and

CONTACT D.W. Macdonald 0 david.macdonald@zoo.ox.ac.uk ( Wildlife Conservation Research Unit,
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, The Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Tubney House, Abingdon Road,
Tubney, Oxon OX13 5QL, UK.
*This invited essay is based on a keynote lecture delivered to the 18th International Wildlife Law Conference at
Tilburg in April 2018.
C 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC

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