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Killing with kindness

THE PURPOSE OF HUGH WARWICK’S latest book is, he asserts, “to find the middle ground” in a debate over the efficacy and ethics of killing animals for conservation. Cull of the Wild succeeds, but only in part. While the discourse is well written, thoughtful and entertaining in places, he swerves the centrism he seeks, largely due to one glaring omission, of which more later.

Warwick is clearly a very gentle man, an expert in

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