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«CURRENT EVENTS» ETHICAL PRINCIPLES FOR RESERVES
(Drafted at the Kiev Ecological Cultural Center, amended and approved at the
International Workshop on Nature Reserve Work and Public Awareness: Ethical
and Cultural Aspects [Tribune-8], Kiev, May 27-30, 2002.)
Ethical principles for nature reserves are the result of the collaborative efforts of many generations of domestic and foreign conservationists.
The aim of these ethical principles is to create inner restraints that will prohibit or regulate various actions with respect to nature reserves and other PNAs and create ethical nature conservation and reserve traditions. By this we mean not only ethical rules of conduct for the staff of reserves, national parks and other PNAs, but also a public awareness of reserves that increases the ethical value of PNAs and ethical motivation for wildlife conservation.
Ethical principles for nature reserves may be used in ecological education and training to influence not only a person’s mind but his or her heart and soul, as well as in the management of reserves, national parks and other PNAs.
Ethical principles for reserves are not meant to force ecological morals on people since ethics do not allow violence. To join us a person needs only good will.
- Do no harm.
- Appreciate, love and respect wildlife for its own sake.
- Use ethical methods in science and ecological education.
- Consider the reserve area sacred.
- Regard wildlife with reverence.
- Do your best to observe the rights of wildlife, plants and animals.
- Manage the nature reserve so that it remains a reserve.
- Do not try to profit from protected natural areas.
- Treat reserve activities as acts of good will.
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