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'<!-- Please do not remove or change this AfD message until the issue is settled --> {{AfDM|page=Animal protection|year=2010|month=June|day=26|substed=yes|help=off}} <!-- For administrator use only: {{Old AfD multi|page=Animal protection|date=26 June 2010|result='''keep'''}} --> <!-- End of AfD message, feel free to edit beyond this point --> {{cleanup|date=June 2010}} '''Animal Protection''' is the act of protecting animals or state of animals being protected. Some consider animal protection equal to animal welfare, others disagree with this position and consider it a synonym of animal rights. Recent international surveys suggest rather being equal to animal welfare or animal rights, this term is a collection of different attitudes such as animal welfare, animal rights, wildlife conservation, reverence for animals etc.. It can be seen as a relatively culturally neutral term for the positive [[attitudes towards animals]]. <ref name="jmeng">http://jmeng.goodeasy.info/DefinitionAnimalProtectionVegetarianism/index.php</ref>. <ref name="jmeng"/><ref name="attitudes">J. Meng, A. Hanlon, A. Handziska, B. I. Choe, G.n Illmann, G. H. Lee, H. Y. Hou, H. Kjastad, L. Keeling, M. Kennedy, M. Alonso, S. J. Aldavood, T. Rehn, V. R. Pelagic, V. Lund,C. Phillips (2009). Attitudes to animals in Eurasia: the identification of different types of animal protection through an international survey. Book of Abstract of [http://www.mindinganimals.com/ 2009 Minding Animal Conference]http://www.mindinganimals.com/images/stories/Documents/abstracts%20oral%20presentations%20op001%20to%20op341.pdf (page 30)</ref><ref name="google">[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=POosTKAuySUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=origins+of+attitudes+towards+animals&hl=en&ei=Te8lTLfyGYzJcYLhveAC&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Origins of Attitudes towards Animals]. </ref><ref>Bostock, Stephen S.T.C. (2007). Looking at 'protectionism'. Society & Animals, 15(2), 203.</ref><ref>Blog of [[Marc Bekoff]] [http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animal-emotions/200912/animals-in-the-news-brief-summary-the-fascinating-lives-animals-and-peop]</ref><ref>http://www.worldanimal.net/protect.html animal protection laws include conservation laws such as CITES</ref><ref>http://www.humanesociety.org/about/departments/legislation/ animal protection legislations include conservation laws such as CITES and Crane Conservation Act</ref><ref>http://jmeng.goodeasy.info/publications/OriginsOfAttitudesTowardsAnimals_JMeng2009.htm Text only</ref> <ref>http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:185208 the library of University of Queensland</ref> <ref>http://research.nla.gov.au/main/results?keyword=ORIGINS+OF+ATTITUDES+TOWARDS+ANIMALS&commit=Go Australian Research Online</ref> <ref>http://en.scientificcommons.org/54113503 ScientificCommons.org</ref><ref>http://jmeng.goodeasy.info/publications/readOAA.php PDF</ref>. Dr Jenia Meng reported in her book Origins of Attitudes towards Animals that the results of '[[Global Attitude to Animals Survey]] 2007/08' suggest the definitions for animal protection consists of the following components in the 12 participating nations.<ref name="google"/> [[China]] (Mainland): [[Animal testing | animal experimentation]], [[wildlife]] protection, [[Cruelty to animals | anti-cruelty]] [[Czech Republic]]: anti-cruelty, animal experimentation, wildlife protection [[Spain]]: anti-cruelty, animal use, [[zoo]], [[working animals | use of animals for work]], [[Ireland]]: [[genetic engineering | genetic change]], anti-cruelty [[Iran]]: anti-cruelty, wildlife protection [[South Korea]]: anti-cruelty, wildlife protection [[Republic of Macedonia|Macedonia]]: wildlife protection, anti-cruelty, genetic change [[Norway]]: animal experimentation, anti-cruelty [[Portugal]]: genetic change, anti-cruelty, wildlife protection [[Sweden]]: anti-cruelty, animal experimentation [[Serbia]]: animal experimentation, [[killing animals]], anti-cruelty [[UK]]: [[Genetic engineering | genetic change]], anti-cruelty, animal experimentation The above information was found in page 112, Chapter 5. Results., Section 'Definition of Animal Protection' of Origins of Attitudes towards Animals. The components are listed in descending order of importance, the left most component is the most important aspect of animal protection in the nation. The information suggests, anti-cruelty is given the priority of many European nations while wildlife protection,reverence for wildlife (not to be confused with conservation), are more concerned in other parts of the world. == See also== *[[animal welfare]] *[[animal rights]] ==Extended reading== [[JM welfare index and JM rights index]] http://jmeng.goodeasy.info/AnimalWelfareIndexAnimalRightsIndex/index.php ==References== <references/> [[Category:Animal welfare]] [[Category:Animal rights]] [[Category: conservation]] [[Category: culture]] [[Category: anthropology]]'