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Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: To Save is to Sacrifice Approach Methodology What Are Ethics? Conservation, Welfare, Liberation Triage and Trade-Offs Roadmap Chapter 1: Orangutans and their Conservation Orangutans: A Natural and Cultural History Conservation: The Old, the New, and the Ugly Pancasila and Palm Oil: Conservation in Indonesia Orangutans as Tourism Mascots: Conservation in Malaysian Borneo “Please Dont Set Up Any More!” The NGO Network Orangutans in the Anthropocene Chapter 2: Kill, Incarcerate, or Liberate? Alternatives to Reintroduction Orangutan Reintroduction: Conservation Tool or Cry in the Wilderness? Replenishing Wild Populations: A Post-Hoc Argument? Forest Restoration and Protection: Reintroduction as Political Incentive for Conservation Law Enforcement: Is Trade a Cause of Consequence of Orangutan Endangerment? Ignoring Displaced Wildlife “Breaks the Hearts of People”: Educational Benefits of R&R Freedom isnt Free: The Cost-(In)effectiveness of R&R Killing What Counts as Euthanasia? Personhood and Penance: Orangutan Rights and Human Responsibilities Sentience and Speciesism: The Ethics of Killing Orangutans Versus Other Species Incarceration Surplus and Scarcity: The Practical Problem of Housing Orphaned Orangutans Where is “Home”? Orangutans and Nationality Life of Luxury or Prison? The Welfare Implications of Captivity Versus the Wild Integrity, Islam, and Independence: Wildness as Inherently Valuable Weighing Wildness and Welfare Chapter 3: What is a Rehabilitation Centre? Boundary-Work in Conservation Whats in a Name? The Preference for “Rehabilitation Centre” Over “Sanctuary” To Breed or Not to Breed? Distinguishing Rehabilitation Centres from Zoos Dehuminization and Dualisms: Defining Wildness Sustainability and Sacrifice: The Ethics of Wildlife Tourism A Tenuous Boundary? A Counter Example: Rehabilitation Centre or Release Site? Chapter 4: Sense and Sentimentality: Emotion in Environmental Ethics Eyes and PIEs: The Development of Ethical Stances Feelings and Facts: The Relationship Between Emotion and Rationality Selfishness and Sacrifice: Two Specific Worries About Emotion in Orangutan Conservation Triage and Trouble: More Thought, Not Less Emotion Chapter 5: No Space on the Ark: Triage in Wildlife Rescue Selecting Citizens: Sacrifice and Speciesism in Admission Practices Creating Two Problems, or Solving One? The Dilemma of Translocation The Sliding Scale Chapter 6: Wild, Well, or Free? Ethical Debates in Rehabilitation Methods Motherly or Tough Love? Negotiating Human-Orangutan Boundaries in Rehabilitation Persevering Purity or Process? Mixing Taxa at Release Sites Defining Unreleasability: Training, Trauma, and Triage Wild Abandon(ment): The Challenges of Post-Release Monitoring The “Grey Zone”: Healthcare and the Transition to Wildness Free or Enslaved? Post-Release Feeding and the Question of Free Will Who is the Expert? Chapter 7: Bosses, Baddies, and “Baby Huggers”: The Ethics of Conservation Fundraising Oversight and Ownership: Relationships with Foundations and Donor-NGOs Palm Oil and Other Dirty Money Playing to the “Baby Huggers”: Cuteness and Commodification Expertise and Ethics: Two Worries About Fundraising Chapter 8: The “Dark Side”: (Un)ethics and Whistleblowing in Conservation My Orangutan, Your Orangutan: Narratives of Collaboration and Conflict Public or Private Secrets? The Ethics of Whistleblowing Should Outsiders Speak Out? Conclusion: Ethics in the Anthropocene References Interviews Index
