Antinaturalism stands in contrast to some
radical environmentalist movements, which state that
nature itself is sacred and should be preserved for its own sake; instead it advances the idea that all human acts are natural and that ecological preservation is important inasmuch as it is necessary for the well-being of
sentient beings, not because of some inherently sacred attribute of nature as a whole.[6] Yves Bonnardel argues that naturalist ideology "goes hand in hand with and legitimises speciesist oppression of non-human sentient beings",[1] and that using
natural law to justify the reintroduction of predatory animals to control populations of other animals is a form of
speciesism.[7]
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