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INTERNATIONAL LEGAL PROTECTION OF ANIMALS
Nikola Visković
; Pravni fakultet, Split
Sažetak
In national legislations the insufficient protection of animals (wild, domestic, pets, laboratory ones and others) has had as a result the acceptance of a number of conventions and acts supposed to be helping the rise of the level of standards of legal protection of all categories of animals.
The author has presented the basic statements of the most significant international conventions and other acts referring to the protection of animals. The survey, among others, contains: International Convention on Protection of Animals in International Shipping (1968), Ramsar Convention on Swamps/Marshes (1971), Convention about International Trading of Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (1973), European Convention about Protection of Farm Animals (1976), Bern Convention about Preservation of European Wild Life Forms and Natural Lairs (1979), European Convention on Protection of Vertebrata Used in Experiments and for Other Scientific Purposes (1986) and others.
The author is discussing the features of legal protection of animals. He is stating that this protection is not uniform nor well balanced when different categories of animals are considered. He is also stating that in theory as well as in practice of the protection of animals the egotistic and anthropocentric approach has proved dominant, not at all altruistic or biocentric wishing to be protecting animals as a value in itself rather than according to their usefulness to men.
The concluding sentences are commenting on the attitude of the former Yugoslavia towards the conventions but are suggesting as well that Croatia is fully integrated into the system of international legal protection of the animals by mere ratification of the existing internationally ratified acts upon the problems.
Ključne riječi
anthropocentrism; biocentrism; legal protection of animals
Hrčak ID:
138749
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.7.1992.
Posjeta: 2.954 *