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If It Pays, It Stays: Trophy Hunting and Rhino Conservation

  • Terry Anderson
  • Terry Anderson explains how hunting in Namibia provides local communities with the right incentives to manage and conserve wildlife. By earning a revenue from these hunts, locals are turning wildlife from a liability—something that might trample crops or injure people—to an asset. In other words, Namibia is proving the old western rancher adage, “if it pays, it stays.”

     

    Related Content:

    “A Trophy Hunt That’s Good For Rhinos” – Richard Conniff, New York Times

    Saving African Rhinos: A Market Success Story – Michael ‘t Sas-Rolfes, PERC Case Study

    “Shoot An Elephant, Save A Community” – Terry Anderson and Shawn Regan, Defining Ideas

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    • Terry Anderson

      Terry L. Anderson is the former president and executive director of PERC, and the John and Jean De Nault Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

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