The substantial and urgent threats to the prosperity of individual nonhuman animals and the survival of species necessitate a changed approach to conservation. The current practice of seeing conservation and animal welfare as contradictory goals is not helpful. It is proposed that the approach should bring together parties to address the common root causes and to find innovative ways to accommodate multiple interests by translating beautifully written and ethically complex theories into pragmatic tools. Compassionate conservation provides a contemporary framework for animal welfare professionals and ecologists to develop new approaches. Simple tools can help in identifying areas of agreement and areas of dispute. While engaging with both ethics and animal welfare science will move animal welfare discussions forward, working together will identify shared values and goals and perhaps reveal ways to save species, one animal at a time, before it is too late.

对个别非人类动物的繁荣和物种生存的重大和紧急威胁，需要改变保护方法。将保护和动物福利视为矛盾目标的当前做法无济于事。建议该方法应将各方召集在一起，以解决共同的根本原因，并通过将写得精美且具有伦理道德的复杂理论转化为实用工具，找到适应多种利益的创新方法。富有同情心的保护为动物福利专业人士和生态学家开发新方法提供了当代框架。简单的工具可以帮助您确定协议领域和争议领域。在同时参与伦理学和动物福利科学将推动动物福利的讨论向前发展时，