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Innovation in Wildlife Management
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”
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”
Fishing for An Answer
An innovative new solution to a growing global problem. How one man’s answer to over fishing is going vertical.
Designing Rights-Based Fisheries Programs
Can market forces balance efficiency-equity tradeoffs in marine fisheries?
Fencing Fisheries in Namibia and Beyond: Lessons From the Developing World
The lessons from Namibia and other fisheries success stories discussed in this essay illustrate that property rights and environmental protection can happen anywhere.
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