zoocide

plural zoocides · alternative zoöcide

1. The systematic or targeted killing of animals.

   Much later, however, during the Permian period, there was a second act of zoocide, one which is less known and less popular among filmmakers ...

   2000, Dialogue and Universalism

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   When the bounty system alone failed to kill all the wolves, the federal government underwrote a kind of zoocide using bounties, trapping, hunting, ...

   2013, Kelsi Nagy, Phillip David Johnson II, Trash Animals: How We Live with Nature’s Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN

   Our proposal is that we speak of zoocide in cases where animals are systematically put to death in large numbers. Zoocide cannot be placed on the same level ...

   2016, Matthieu Ricard, A Plea for the Animals: The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion, Shambhala Publications, →ISBN, page 147

   Synonyms: zooicide

2. Any substance intended to kill animals.