Animals in the international law of armed conflict / edited by Anne Peters, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Jérôme de Hemptinne, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Robert Kolb, University of Geneva.

"Animals are the unknown victims of armed conflicts. Wildlife populations usually decline during warfare, with disastrous repercussions on the food chain, on fragile ecosystems and precarious habitats. Belligerents take advantage of the chaos of war for poaching and trafficking of animal produc...

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Other Authors: Peters, Anne, 1964- (Editor), Hemptinne, Jérôme de (Editor), Kolb, Robert (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
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Table of Contents:
  • Animals in wartime : a legal research agenda / Anne Peters and Jérôme me de Hemptinne
  • Historical perspectives on animal involvement in wartime / Clemens Wischermann
  • Ecological effects of warfare on wildlife / Joshua H. Daskin and Robert M. Pringle
  • The protection of animals in wartime : rationale and challenges / Heike Krieger and José Martı́ nez Soria
  • Animals as property and as objects / Marco Roscini
  • Animals as specially protected objects / Sandra Krä henmann
  • Animals as part of the environment / Jérôme de Hemptinne
  • Animals as endangered species / Ayş e-Martina Bö hringer and Thilo Marauhn
  • Animals as war weapons / Chris Jenks
  • Animals as combatants and as prisoners of war? / Jérôme de Hemptinne, Tadesse Kebebew and Joshua Joseph Niyo
  • Animals as means of medical transportation, search and rescue / Jérôme de Hemptinne
  • Veterinary Personnel / Katharine Fortin
  • Animals in occupied territory / Marco Longobardo
  • Animals in protected zones / Matthew Gillett
  • Animals in sea warfare / Etienne Henry
  • Animals in disaster situations / Giulio Bartolini
  • Animals as means of military experimentation / Veronika Bı́ lková
  • Repression of international crimes / Manuel J. Ventura
  • Reparation and rehabilitation / Marina Lostal
  • The special regime for wildlife trafficking / Karsten Nowrot
  • Enforcement powers of the United Nations Security Council / Britta Sjö stedt
  • Towards an effective legal protection of animals in wartime : key findings and concluding recommendations / Jérôme de Hemptinne, Anne Peters and Robert Kolb.