Wildlife and domestic animals are the neglected victims of armed conflicts. The book is the first to analyse how inadequately international law protects animals and how international humanitarian law principles and concepts can be interpreted and reformed to improve the legal protection of animals, including with adapted enforcement mechanisms.
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 products. Livestock, companion, and zoo animals, highly dependent on human care, are direct victims of hostilities. The book is the first legal analysis of these issues. It maps the framework of international humanitarian law, examining which and how the concepts, principles, and rationales can be applied and adapted for a better protection of animals. The contributions inter alia discuss precautions for animal civilians, problems of animal combatants and prisoners, a specific status for veterinarian personnel, the recognition of biodiversity hotspots as specially protected zones, and the potential of enforcement mechanisms. The concluding chapter draws together novel interpretations and reform proposals.
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Raises the novel legal question of animals during warfare, highlighting deficiencies in current practice and suggesting new readings and reforms.
Part I. The Need for Protecting Animals in Wartime:
1. Animals in
wartime: a legal research agenda Anne Peters and Jérōme de Hemptinne;
2.
Historical perspectives on animal involvement in wartime Clemens Wischermann;
3. Ecological effects of warfare on wildlife Joshua Daskin and Robert
Pringle;
4. The protection of animals in wartime: rationale and challenges
Heike Krieger and José Martinez Soria; Part II. The Protection of Animals in
International and Non-International Armed Conflicts:
5. Animals as property
and as objects Marco Roscini;
6. Animals as specially protected objects
Sandra Krähenmann;
7. Animals as part of the environment Jérōme de Hemptinne;
8. Animals as endangered species Aye-Martina Böhringer and Thilo Marauhn;
9.
Animals as war weapons Chris Jenks;
10. Animals as combatants and as
prisoners of war? Jérōme de Hemptinne, Tadesse Kebebew and Joshua Joseph
Niyo;
11. Animals as means of medical transport, search and rescue
Jérōme de Hemptinne;
12. Veterinary personnel Katharine Fortin; Part III. The
Protection of Animals in Specific Situations:
13. Animals in occupied
territory Marco Longobardo;
14. Animals in protected zones Matthew Gillett;
15. Animals in sea warfare Etienne Henry;
16. Animals in disaster situations
Giulio Bartolini;
17. Animals as means of military experimentation Veronika
Bķlkovį; Part IV. Enforcement Regimes for the Protection of Animals in
Wartime:
18. Repression of International Crimes Manuel Ventura;
19.
Reparation and rehabilitation Marina Lostal;
20. The special regime for
wildlife trafficking Karsten Nowrot;
21. Enforcement powers of the United
Nations Security Council Britta Sjöstedt; Part V. For Better Animal
Protection and Enforcement Regimes in Wartime:
22. Towards an effective legal
protection of animals in wartime: key findings and concluding recommendations
Jérōme de Hemptinne, Anne Peters and Robert Kolb.
Anne Peters is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg. She is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and an associate member of the Institut de Droit International. She is currently President of the German Society of International Law and a past President of the European Society of International Law. Jérōme de Hemptinne is a lecturer in International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law at the Universities of Utrecht and Louvain. He also teaches at Sciences-Po, and Lille Catholic University. He has previously worked at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, the Office of Legal Counsel of the United Nations, and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Robert Kolb is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Geneva. He has worked as legal advisor for the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.
