ENWC201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Wildlife Trade, Ecotourism, Trophy Hunting
18 May 2018
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Incentive Programs and Sustainable Use
● Protected areas and regulations not enough
○ Marginalized populations
■ Live side by side with wildlife
■ Compete for resources
○ Economic opportunity
■ Markets make poaching/illegal trade worth the risk
● When competition exceeds resources availability?
○ People usually win out, then resources are affected and people lose out
● When demand exceeds resource supply?
● Recognize that most conservation will have to be achieved through conservation
in human social space
● Incentive driven conservation
○ Make wildlife more valuable alive than dead
○ Can be
■ Social incentives
■ Economic incentives
■ Negative incentives
● Jail, fines
■ Positive incentives
○ Non-consumptive is possible depending on the regional constraints
● In developed world
○ Negative incentive
■ Private property - no hunting, no fishing, no trespassing
○ Positive incentive
■ CRP rates , farmers or land owners can rent their land to the
government and if you do then you have to grow only plants that
are beneficial to the ecosystem in that area
● In developing world
○ Negative incentive
■ arrest people for hunting, however normally they are hunting to
feed their families so this does not prosper a sustainable thinking
way or conservation - can paint your foundation as against that
country
○ Positive incentive
■ High costs not always sustainable in long term
■ Gov often unable to provide finances
■ Develop a ecotourism system - wildlife is worth tourism dollars
Document Summary
Markets make poaching/illegal trade worth the risk. People usually win out, then resources are affected and people lose out. Recognize that most conservation will have to be achieved through conservation in human social space. Make wildlife more valuable alive than dead. Non-consumptive is possible depending on the regional constraints. Private property - no hunting, no fishing, no trespassing. Crp rates , farmers or land owners can rent their land to the government and if you do then you have to grow only plants that are beneficial to the ecosystem in that area. Arrest people for hunting, however normally they are hunting to feed their families so this does not prosper a sustainable thinking way or conservation - can paint your foundation as against that country. High costs not always sustainable in long term. Develop a ecotourism system - wildlife is worth tourism dollars. However typically a large leakage of tourism and wildlife trade dollars.
