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Why Nature Conservation Has the Worse Cards Compared to Environmental Protection and Animal Welfare

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Causes of the decline of the conservation lobby are highlighted, as well as the problems of conservationist concerns to assert themselves against conceptually “related” social fields of activity such as environmental protection and animal welfare.

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Correspondence to Klaus-Dieter Hupke .

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Hupke, KD. (2023). Why Nature Conservation Has the Worse Cards Compared to Environmental Protection and Animal Welfare. In: Nature Conservation. Springer Spektrum, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66159-8_3

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