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Author: Ian Whyte

Ian is an amateur field naturalist, an ecocentrist, and an Associate Editor of The Ecological Citizen. He is retired
Animal rights, Defaunation, Direct action, Rights of nature, Values

Ecocentric thoughts on whaling

It is obvious that humanity’s treatment of whale people constitutes an atrocity. This includes the deliberate murder of a so-called hunt, the quasi-deliberate murder of negligence, the effective murder of habitat destruction, or the oblivious murder of the unthinking. Continue reading Ecocentric thoughts on whaling

Ian Whyte9 March 2022
Animal rights, Defaunation

Hunting: A personal ecocentric view

Slowly, over the years, intimate knowledge has allowed me to realize all wild lives are significant, and while sometimes enormously different from mine, they are not inferior. Continue reading Hunting: A personal ecocentric view

Ian Whyte22 April 202110 February 20222 Comments
Natural history

The ethics of mothing

One night years ago, in a park in Florida, I met a wonderful couple, Carol Wolf and her husband, Herb. They introduced me to the joys of mothing, the practice of attracting moths to suspended sheets with ultraviolet lights at night, and photographing them. This can get quite exciting, especially when a new, or unusually beautiful, species turns up. Continue reading The ethics of mothing

Ian Whyte27 August 202010 February 2022
Green living

Making my decisions – do least harm

It seems obvious to me that my first principle should be to try to consider the effect of my every decision on all other life forms at both the individual and species levels. Continue reading Making my decisions – do least harm

Ian Whyte13 August 202010 February 20221 Comment
Direct action

What are you doing about the ecological crisis?

What am I doing? Am I doing enough? Why am I, and are we, not doing more? Continue reading What are you doing about the ecological crisis?

Ian Whyte22 April 202010 February 2022

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