SABIIA - Sistema Aberto e Integrado de Informação em Agricultura (Sabiia)

Tisdell, Clement A.; Wilson, Clevo.

The importance of environmental education as a component of ecotourism is highlighted. The extent of environmental education and its impact on attitudes to conservation of sea turtles and actions by ecotourists to support such conservation as a result of their visits to Mon Repos Conservation Park (Queensland), an important marine turtle rookery, is examined. To do this, results from 519 usable survey forms completed by ecotourists are analysed. It is found that a considerable amount of environmental education is obtained by visitors and that this has positive and statistically significant impacts on their desire to protect sea turtles and their intended actions to do so. The importance of the interaction of tourists with wildlife as a contributor to...

An Evaluation of Feral Cat Management Options Using a Decision Analysis Network

Palavras-chave: Ecotourism; Environmental education; Sea turtles; Sustainable tourism; Wildlife conservation; Environmental Economics and Policy.

Ano: 2000

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48365

Ecology and Society

Loyd, Kerrie Anne T.; University of Georgia; kloyd@uga.edu; DeVore, Jayna L.; University of Georgia; jdevore@uga.edu.

The feral domestic cat (Felis catus) is a predatory invasive species with documented negative effects on native wildlife. The issue of appropriate and acceptable feral cat management is a matter of contentious debate in cities and states across the United States due to concerns for wildlife conservation, cat welfare, and public health. Common management strategies include: Trap-Neuter-Release, Trap-Neuter-Release with removal of kittens for adoption and Trap-Euthanize. Very little empirical evidence exists relevant to the efficacy of alternative options and a model-based approach is needed to predict population response and extend calculations to impact on wildlife. We have created a structured decision support model representing multiple stakeholder...

Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports

Palavras-chave: Decision analysis network; Feral cat management; Lethal control; Trap-Neuter-Release; Wildlife conservation.

Ano: 2010

Changing Abundance of Elephants and Willingness to Pay for their Conservation

Bandara, Ranjith; Tisdell, Clement A..

This paper explores the way in which the stated willingness to pay for the conservation of Asian elephants in Sri Lanka varies with hypothetical variations in their abundance. To do that, it relies on results from a sample of residents of Colombo. The willingness to pay function is found to be unusual. It increases at an increasing rate for hypothetical reductions in the elephant population compared to its current level (a level that makes the Asian elephant endangered) and also increases at a decreasing rate for increases in this population from its current level. Rational explanations are given for this relationship. The relationship is, however, at odds with relationships suggested in some of the literature for total economic value as a function of...

Economic Incentives to Conserve Wildlife on Private lands: Analysis and Policy

Palavras-chave: Asian elephant; Contingent valuation; Sri Lanka; Total economic value; Wildlife conservation; Willingness to pay; Environmental Economics and Policy.

Ano: 2004

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/90538

Some believe that provision of private property rights in wildlife on private land can provide a powerful economic incentive for nature conservation because it enables property owners to market such wildlife or its attributes. If such marketing is profitable, private landholders will conserve the wildlife concerned and its required habitat. But land is not always most profitably used for exploitation of wildlife, and many economic values of wildlife (such as non-use economic values) cannot be marketed. The mobility of some wildlife (their fugitive nature) adds to the limitations of the private property approach. While some species may be conserved by this approach, it is suboptimal as a single policy approach to nature conservation. Nevertheless, it...

Effects of a Change in Abundance of Elephants on Willingness to Pay for their Conservation

Palavras-chave: Private property rights; Wildlife conservation; Environmental Economics and Policy; Land Economics/Use.

Ano: 2003

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48973

Bandara, Ranjith; Tisdell, Clement A..

Outcomes and Determinants of Success of a Performance Payment Scheme for Carnivore Conservation

Palavras-chave: Asian elephant; Contingent valuation; Sri Lanka; Total economic value; Wildlife conservation; Willingness to pay.; Environmental Economics and Policy.

Ano: 2004

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48979

Zabel, Astrid; Bostedt, Goran; Engel, Stefanie.

This paper presents a first empirical assessment of carnivore conservation under a performance payment scheme. The Swedish government issues payments to reindeer herder villages based on the number of carnivore offspring certified on their pastures. The villages decide on the internal use and distribution of the payments. It is generally assumed that benefit distribution rules are exogenously given. We develop a model to investigate such rules as endogenous decision. The empirical data reveals that villages’ group size has a direct negative effect on conservation outcomes. However, there is also an indirect positive effect which impacts conservation outcomes through the benefit distribution rule. This result revises the general collective action hypothesis...

Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation

Palavras-chave: Conservation performance payments; Wildlife conservation; Collective action; Empirical policy assessment; Sweden; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.

Ano: 2011

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/115973

Property rights of landholders in non-captive wildlife and prospects for conservation

In order to reduce the rate of human-induced biodiversity loss of wild species, it has become increasingly important to stem this loss on private and tribal lands and to find effective policies to do this. Some writers believe that granting landholders commercial property rights in wildlife might be effective in dealing with this matter and result in the sustainable use of wildlife. This paper explores this view using economic theory. In doing so, it takes into account the total economic valuation concept. While granting of commercial property rights is found to be effective for conserving some species, it is predicted to be a complete failure as a means of conserving other species. In addition, particular attention is given to the economics of the...

Public Attitudes to the Use of Wildlife by Aboriginal Australians: Marketing of Wildlife and its Conservation

Palavras-chave: Biodiversity; Fugitive resources; Open-access; Property rights; Wildlife conservation; Environmental Economics and Policy; Land Economics/Use.

Ano: 2003

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48964

Tisdell, Clement A.; Swarna Nantha, Hemanath.

Attitudes of a sample of the Australian public towards the subsistence use of wildlife by indigenous Australians and whether or not indigenous Australians should be allowed to sell wildlife and wildlife products is examined. It has been suggested that allowing such possibilities would provide economic incentives for nature conservation among local people. We explore whether those sampled believe that indigenous Australians should do more than other groups and institutions to conserve Australia’s tropical species, and whether or not indigenous Australians should be allowed to take common as well as endangered wildlife species for food. Attitudes of the sampled public towards indigenous Australians earning income from trophy hunting and from the harvesting...

Sharing Nature's Wealth through Wildlife Tourism: Its Economic, Sustainability and Conservation Benefits

Palavras-chave: Australia; Australian Aborigines; Indigenous rights; Public attitudes to conservation; Subsistence rights; Sustainable use; Resource management; Wildlife conservation; Environmental Economics and Policy; Institutional and Behavioral Economics.

Ano: 2005

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55069

This essay classifies different types of wildlife tourism on the basis of whether they rely on captive or non-captive wildlife and whether they involve consumptive or non-consumptive use of wildlife. It is argued that depending upon how they are managed, all these forms of wildlife tourism can be supportive of the conservation of wildlife. Different mechanisms for sharing the benefits of wildlife tourism are considered and it is argued that from several different perspectives, there can be too much or too little sharing of the economic benefits from wildlife tourism. Diverse stakeholders with an interest in wildlife tourism are identified and different ways (direct and indirect) in which they can benefit from wildlife tourism are specified. The...

The Impacts of Wildlife Conservation Policies on Rural Household Welfare in Zambia

Palavras-chave: Economic benefits from wildlife tourism; Profit of wildlife tour operators; Sustainable tourism; Tourism economics; Wildlife conservation; Wildlife tourism; Environmental Economics and Policy; L83; Q26; Q57..

Ano: 2010

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/93404

Fernandez, Ana; Richardson, Robert B.; Tschirley, David L.; Tembo, Gelson.

KEY POLICY POINTS • Tourism is increasingly important in Zambia as a vehicle for economic growth, and has been identified as a key sector for poverty reduction due to its potential to generate off-farm income and employment in rural areas. Growth in arrivals and receipts in Zambia has outpaced average growth rates for developing countries. • Tourism in Zambia relies mostly on the stock of natural resources, including the protected area system which includes national parks and game management areas (GMAs). Co-management agreements between Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) and rural communities present opportunities and threats for households living in GMAs. • Households living in GMAs have lower average income than households in other rural areas. Yet we...

Tick fauna of wild animals received and attended at the Santarém Zoological Park, western Pará State, Brazil

Palavras-chave: Wildlife conservation; Rural households; Zambia; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Environmental Economics and Policy; Food Security and Poverty; International Development; Q57.

Ano: 2009

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/53453

Ciência Rural

Nascimento,Kelly Karoline Gomes do; Veríssimo,Samara Maria Modesto; Raia,Vanessa de Almeida; Guimarães,Ruth Cavalcante Silva; Seade,Gisele Cristine Castro; Azevedo,Adna Cristina Picanço; Matos,Sidcley Pereira; Oliveira,Jairo Moura de; Bezerra,Isis Abel; Martins,Thiago Fernandes.

ABSTRACT: Ticks are known worldwide for parasitizing a number of wild hosts. However, few studies have been conducted on ticks in zoos in Brazil. The objective of the present study was to collect, identify, and report the parasitic tick fauna found on wild Amazon animals received and attended at the Santarém Zoological Park from September 2004 to September 2013. In all, 56 animals, including 26 mammals and 30 reptiles, were sampled, from which 1172 ticks were collected and identified, comprising 862 adults, 284 nymphs, and 26 larvae. Nymphs of Amblyomma geayi on three-toed sloth (Bradypus tridactylus), adults of Amblyomma longirostre on black dwarf porcupine (Coendou nycthemera), and nymphs of Amblyomma naponense on southern tamandua (Tamandua...

Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article

Palavras-chave: Amazon; Amblyomma; Wildlife conservation; Brazil.

Ano: 2017

URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-84782017001000502

Valuing the Otago Peninsula: The Economic Benefits of Conservation

It is suggested that valuing objects is a distinctive human trait. It is a prerequisite for rational behaviour. Factors that are likely to influence valuations, the difficulties of getting agreements about valuations and the limited perspective of economics as a basis for valuation are discussed generally. Attributes of Otago Peninsula that seem to be valuable and worth conserving are listed and discuss taking into account possible conflicts in getting maximum value from these attributes. Particular attention is given to the economic value of conserving wildlife species on the Otago Peninsula. It is estimated that as a result of the presence of these species and their use for tourism, expenditure of over $100 million annually is generated in the Dunedin...

Wildlife Conservation and the Value of New Zealand's Otago Peninsula: Economic Impacts and Other Considerations

Palavras-chave: New Zealand; Yellow-Eyed Penguins; NGOs; Wildlife conservation; Tourism; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Environmental Economics and Policy; Land Economics/Use.

Ano: 2007

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55104

Valuing objects is a distinctive human trait. It is necessary for rational behaviour. Factors that are likely to influence valuations, the difficulties of getting agreements about valuations and the limited perspective of economics as a basis for valuation are discussed generally in this article. Attributes of Otago Peninsula that seem to be valuable and worth conserving are listed and discussed, taking into account possible conflicts in getting maximum value from these attributes. Particular attention is given to the economic value of conserving wildlife species on the Otago Peninsula. As a result of the presence of these species and their use for tourism, expenditure of over $100 million NZ is generated annually in the Dunedin regional economy (directly...

Willingness of Sri Lankan Farmers to pay for a Scheme to Conserve Elephants: An Empirical Analysis

Palavras-chave: New Zealand; Wildlife tourism; Wildlife conservation; Yellow-eyed Penguins; Environmental Economics and Policy; Land Economics/Use.

Ano: 2008

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55108

Bandara, Ranjith; Tisdell, Clement A..

This paper explores the feasibility of adopting an integrated economic approach to raise farmers’ tolerance of the presence of elephants on their farming lands. Responses to this approach were sought from a sample of farmers in the areas affected by human elephant conflict in the northwestern province of Sri Lanka. Results from a contingent valuation survey of their willingness to pay for a scheme to conserve elephants are also reported. Two separate logit regression analyses were undertaken to examine the factors that influence the farmers’ responses for the payment principle question and their opinions on the integrated economic approach. Although found that the majority of the respondents expressed their willingness to pay for the proposed scheme and...