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Eco sabotage the destruction of property by vandals is ethically justified. Eco sabotage has been successfully used since the 1970s. It has helped re-shape environmental laws throughout the world today. Eco sabotage was formerly known as Monkey Wrenching, a term defined by Edward Abbey. Edward Abbey’s novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang presented the idea of monkey wrenching to protect the South West. Groups like “Earth’s First” began using Edward Abbeys tactics. Examples of some successes are saving owls and changes in fishing nets to help save dolphins from getting tangled in the net. In the book Hoot written by Carl Hiaasen, three children engage in eco sabotage to save a family of owls from a construction site. This is justified because they are trying to protect a family of owls, and this is more important to them the following the laws prohibiting vandalism.