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Innovation in Wildlife Management
Saving African Rhinos: A Market Success Story
How property rights and limited trophy hunting saved the African white rhino.
Public-Private partners restore wetland
Jeff Laszlo knew that to keep the family ranch, he needed to chnage his operations. By recognizing the environmental assets on his ranch and forging partnerships with public and private funders he restored a huge wetland that now flourishes with fish, wilflife and plants. By investing in conservation, he has saved his ranch and increased his income.
Don’t mess with Texas fish, either
Despite oil spills, hurricanes and a long history of misguided federal rules, Texas’ commercial fishermen are doing better than ever thanks to new management based on free-market principles and local control.
Q. & A. on Rhino and Tiger Economics
Conservation of animals like rhinos and elephants may eventually be conducted most successfully by markets where these animals have monetary value rather than just emotional value. It may sound cold, but it could well keep them from becoming extinct
The call of the wild
Could the political conflict over wolf recovery efforts be resolved via economics? Let the bidding begin.
Shoot an Elephant, Save a Community
When people who live near wild elephants understand how they can benefit economically, they have an incentive to protect the wildlife.
Kenyan parks face development pressure
Kenya might make 20 times more money from the Masai Mara Game Reserve, which is just a sixth of Tanzania’s Serengeti, but this, reports Special Correspondent WYCLIFFE MUGA, comes at a huge environmental cost . By Wycliffe Muga PERC Media Fellow In what amounted to a direct challenge thrown at Kenyan tourism in February,Continue reading “Kenyan parks face development pressure”
Saving Ocean Fisheries with Property Rights
Saving Ocean Fisheries with Property Rights is the first in a series of PERC videos that will document how Free Market Environmentalism solves real-world conservation problems. Don Leal, PERC’s research director, and Mark Lundsten, a former boat captain on the Bering sea, combine research and real life to tell what happens when open access fishingContinue reading “Saving Ocean Fisheries with Property Rights”
Politics of Endangered Species
Buried in the continuing resolution funding the federal government for the remainder of 2011 is a rider that delists the gray wolf as an endangered species in Montana and Idaho. The rider had bipartisan sponsorship from Sen. Jon Tester, Montana Democrat, and Rep. Michael K. Simpson, Idaho Republican, but the public reaction is anything butContinue reading “Politics of Endangered Species”