ABSTRACT
This chapter sets out the goal for the book: to explore, in a balanced manner, ethical debates about how and why do to orangutan conservation, especially rehabilitation and reintroduction. The author explains the book’s research methods, its contribution to existing literatures and discourses, and some of its key concepts. These concepts include: ethics, and in particular ordinary ethics; conservation, animal welfare, and animal liberation, and how these philosophies are expected to interact; biopolitics as applied to conservation; and triage, which is related to the concept of a conservation trade-off.
