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Market proposed to end feud over whale hunting
Hoping to defuse a three-decade feud over whale hunting, three academics are making an audacious proposal: The world should put a price on killing whales and allow conservationists and whalers alike to bid on the right to take them.
Electrifying Pachyderms
Protecting the Aberdares ecosystem required keeping the local people from poaching the wildlife, grazing it with livestock, and cutting the indigenous trees for firewood. A 24-mile electric fence enclosing 850 square miles (one-quarter the size of Yellowstone National Park) could accomplish this task, but only if the locals saw a direct benefit from it. ByContinue reading “Electrifying Pachyderms”
Vermont schools the nation in woody biomass heating
Discussions of renewable energy typically focus on technologies such as solar panels, wind power, and geothermal. In one state, however, a different conversation is taking shape—one that is focusing on refining an age-old source of renewable energy: wood.
How Not to Save Wild Tigers
Banning private ownership of tigers is not going to save them from extinction.
Q&A on bees, colony collapse, and adaption
The impact of bee colony collapse on American agriculture
Q&A on markets and endangered species
Q: In 1998, you authored a PERC Policy Series called “Who Will Save the Wild Tiger?” What has changed in the world of tigers? A: A lot has been done. There have been many conservation initiatives, much money spent, and many, many meetings. A wide range of conservation NGOs and even the World Bank establishedContinue reading “Q&A on markets and endangered species”
Endangered species and the roles of science and policy
Whether a given species is at risk of extinction may be a scientific question, but what to do about it is not. What conservation measures should be adopted to address such threats, and at what cost, are policy
questions, says Jonathan Adler
The Leaky Ark
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) was enacted in 1973 and today is viewed as the most powerful environmental law in the nation as well as one of the most controversial. “Decoupling” the listing decision how the species should be protected how it should be protected could allow more creative measures tailored the needs ad and circumstances of each species.
The Endangered Species Act and Federalism
This book presents the legal and policy analysis for federalism considerations in implementing ESA.