Search Results - subject:"elephants"

Making the best of bad data : a longitudinal analysis of elephant poaching in Africa from 2002 to 2018

Rivera, Joseph Wilfrido - In: Journal of economic criminology 2 (2023), pp. 1-9

probability of a wildlife reserve reporting illegally killed elephants found on MIKE (monitoring of illegally killed elephants … as the size of the MIKE sites and the population estimates for the number of elephants within these MIKE sites. This … contributed to the odds of elephants being reported as having been illegally killed despite issues with reporting, international …

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Sanctioned quotas versus information provisioning for community wildlife conservation in Zimbabwe : a framed field experiment approach

Ntuli, Herbert; Crépin, Anne-Sophie; Schill, Caroline; … - In: Environmental and resource economics 84 (2023) 3, pp. 775-823

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The Slaughter of the Bison and Reversal of Fortunes on the Great Plains

Feir, Donna; Gillezeau, Rob; Jones, Maggie - 2022

In the late nineteenth century, the North American bison was brought to the brink of extinction in just over a decade. We demonstrate that the loss of the bison had immediate, negative consequences for the Native Americans who relied on them and ultimately resulted in a permanent reversal of...

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Understanding the Illegal Wildlife Trade in Vietnam : A Systematic Literature Review

Luong, Hai Thanh - 2022

As one of the earliest countries in the Southeast Asia region, Vietnam joined the CITES in 1994.However, they have faced several challenges and practical barriers to preventing and combating illegal wildlife trade (IWT) after 35 years. This first study systematically reviews 29 English journal...

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Elephants

Kremer, Michael; Morcom, Charles - 2022

-access resources, however, are used to produce storable goods. Elephants, rhinos, and tigers are three prominent examples. Anticipated …

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Conservation Co-Benefits from Air Pollution Regulation : Evidence from Birds

Liang, Yuanning; Rudik, Ivan; Zou, Eric; Johnston, Alison; … - 2022

Massive wildlife losses over the past 50 years have brought new urgency to identifying both the drivers of population decline and potential solutions. We provide the first large-scale evidence that air pollution, specifically ozone, is associated with declines in bird abundance in the United...

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Does the experience make a difference? : comparing tourist attitudes pre- and post-visit towards the elephant tourism industry

Flower, Emily K.; Burns, Georgette Leah; Jones, Darryl N.; … - In: Annals of tourism research empirical insights 2 (2021) 2, pp. 1-9

Animal welfare is a significant issue in wildlife tourism and is becoming an important component in tourists' decisions. This study explored the type of tourists who most likely visit different elephant tourism venues and compared tourist attitudes pre-and post-visit. We surveyed 132 tourists at...

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Wildlife Trade Policy and the Decline of Wildlife

Heid, Benedikt; Márquez-Ramos, Laura - 2021

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is the international agreement that regulates international trade in wildlife to prevent its decline. Little is known about the effectiveness of its trade restrictions and bans. Combining the largest...

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Sanction avoidance and the illegal wildlife trade : a case study of an urban wild meat supply chain

Gore, Meredith L.; Escouflaire, Lucie; Wieland, Michelle - In: Journal of illicit economies and development : JIED 3 (2021) 1, pp. 118-131

The unprecedented global scale of illegal wildlife trade poses threats to humans and ecosystems. Policies calling for increased enforcement to control illicit trade are rooted in the idea that more enforcement will result in greater deterrence, but as yet it is unclear how the illegal wildlife...

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The Price Elasticity of African Elephant Poaching

Blanc, Julian; Đỗ-Quý-Toàn; Dublin, Holly; … - 2020

The objective of this paper is to provide an estimate of the elasticity of elephant poaching with respect to prices. Ivory being a storable commodity subjects its price to Hotelling's no-arbitrage condition, hence allowing identification of the supply curve. The price of gold, one of many...

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