Participation at ministries input meeting on revision of wildlife law on behalf of Council for animal ethics

Today I have represented Norway´s Council for animal ethics in an online input meeting (innspillsmøte) held by Ministry of Agriculture and Food and Ministry of Climate and Environment in relation to the ministries´ planned revision on hunting and capture of wildlife (Viltloven - the wildlife law). I had 5 minutes to present my input on behalf on the council. I will also prepare written feedback to the ministries (to be discussed in Council for animal ethics before it is sent).

Some 50 people attended the input meeting.

Council for animal ethics statement drafted

A couple of days ago I finished composing the draft of a statement by the Norwegian Council for animal ethics, ahead of the council´s meeting next Thursday. The topic for the statement is tagging of wild animals.

Link to Verdibørsen interview on tagging of wild animals

Here is the Verdibørsen program that aired February 7th featuring an interview with me on tagging of wild animals.

Interview on radiocollaring of wild animals aired on NRK P2

Today an interview with me on radiocollaring of wild animals was recorded, and a few later it aired in NRK P2´s program Verdibørsen. The journalist was Mathias Nylenna. I was presented as Associate professor of philosophy at UiS and member of Norway´s Council for animal ethics.

Pictures from På Kanten, the Norwegian philosophy festival

These are pictures from På Kanten, the Norwegian philosophy festival, late May.

From the improvisation "philosophy sport".

From my conversation with fellow philosopher Ole Martin Moen on the suffering of wild animals. According to the organizers, this was the one event that engaged the audience the most.

To discuss animal suffering at phiolosophy festival

I have agreed to appear in the philosophy festival "På kanten" [On the edge] in Kragerø May 26th in conversation with philosopher Ole Martin Moen (University of Oslo). The topic for discussion is "Ville dyrs lidelser" [The suffering of wild animals].

Two session proposals revised early February

On February 1st I updated two session proposals submitted to the September 17-19th University of Stavanger conference "Animals in the Anthropocene: Human-animal relations in a changing semiosphere", on request from the conference´s Scientific Advisory Committee. Namely: The session proposals “Wild animals in the era of humankind” and “Global species”.

See also:

7 theme sessions accepted for "Animals in the Anthropocene" conference