Hugh Warwick
July 22, 2024
Is killing one species to help another species ever the right move? How do you feel about killing hedgehogs to help breeding seabirds? There are many real situations like this playing out around the planet in which the culling of one species is used to help another species. Often the “invasive” species is there because of human involvement and our destruction of habitat. Is there a circumstance in which culling is the absolute best solution? This is what HUGH WARWICK set out to understand. He is an ecologist and environmental writer with a particular fondness for hedgehogs. His new book is a complex meditation on environmental culling: THE CULL OF THE WILD: KILLING IN THE NAME OF CONSERVATION.
