Elephants, Economics and Ivory

Barbier, Edward B.; Burgess, Joanne C.; Swanson, Timothy; Pearce, David

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“…We selected Mainland China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan, Philippines, and Japan as the most prominent ivory consumer states (Martin & Vigne ; Barbier et al. ). We assessed media coverage in Tanzania, where most savannah elephant poaching has occurred in the last 8 years (Chase et al.…”

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“…We assessed online and print media coverage of the ivory burn in 11 countries important for elephant conservation and the ivory trade. We selected Mainland China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan, Philippines, and Japan as the most prominent ivory consumer states (Martin & Vigne 2011;Barbier et al 2013). We assessed media coverage in Tanzania, where most savannah elephant poaching has occurred in the last 8 years (Chase et al 2016), and Kenya, where the ivory burn on 30 April 2016 was carried out.…”

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Reach and messages of the world's largest ivory burn

Braczkowski

Holden

O’Bryan

et al. 2018

Conservation Biology

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Recent increases in ivory poaching have depressed African elephant populations. Successful enforcement has led to ivory stockpiling. Stockpile destruction is becoming increasingly popular, and most destruction has occurred in the last 5 years. Ivory destruction is intended to send a strong message against ivory consumption, both in promoting a taboo on ivory use and catalyzing policy change. However, there has been no effort to establish the distribution and extent of media reporting on ivory destruction events globally. We analyzed media coverage of the largest ivory destruction event in history (Kenya, 30 April 2016) across 11 nation states connected to ivory trade. We used an online-media crawling tool to search online media outlets and subjected 5 of the largest print newspapers (by circulation) in 5 nations of interest to content analysis. Most online news on the ivory burn came from the United States (81% of 1944 articles), whereas most of the print news articles came from Kenya (61% of 157 articles). Eighty-six to 97% of all online articles reported the burn as a positive conservation action, whereas 4-50% discussed ivory burning as having a negative impact on elephant conservation. Most articles discussed law enforcement and trade bans as effective for elephant conservation. There was more relative search interest globally in the 2016 Kenyan ivory burn than any other burn in 5 years. Ours is the first attempt to track the reach of media coverage relative to an ivory burn and provides a case study in tracking the effects of a conservation-marketing event.

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Reach and messages of the world's largest ivory burn

Braczkowski

Holden

O’Bryan

et al. 2018

Conservation Biology

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“…Bulte et al, 2006;Van Kooten & Bulte, 2000;Kahn, 1998;Barbier et al, 1990) seem to share the view that the use of markets through a well-designed institutional arrangement is a much better way of managing a precious resource over the long term, than an outright ban. This is so because markets offer more management options and flexibility than command and control mechanisms.…”

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Effects of Elephants on Ecosystems and Biodiversity

Kerley¹,

Landman²,

Kruger³

et al. 2008

Elephant Management

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ISBN 978 1 86814 479 2All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the express permission, in writing, of both the author and the publisher.Cover photograph by Donald Cook at stock.xchng Cover design, layout and design by Acumen Publishing Solutions, JohannesburgPrinted and bound by Creda Communications, Cape Town Foreword SOUTH AFRICA and its people are blessed with diverse and thriving wildlife. We are also a developing economy with a growing population. From these facts emerges the particular situation of having most of our protected areas surrounded by land that has been transformed, to a greater or lesser extent, by human development. Large mammals, such as elephants, no longer roam the entire landscape, and their populations are no longer completely governed by the laws of nature. Protecting elephants and the ecological systems in which they exist in a practical and sustainable way that balances the needs of humans, elephants and the environment is a challenge to which I am committed.This Assessment was undertaken to reduce the degree of scientific uncertainty associated with decisions that must be made very soon and in the medium-to-long term. It helps to evaluate the costs and benefits associated with each choice, both in economic and ecological terms, and clarifies the legal framework within which they must be made. Collectively the chapters in this report reveal the many successes our country's experts, in collaboration with their peers in neighbouring countries and abroad, have achieved in understanding elephants and their needs, in fields as diverse as veterinary science, ecology, animal behaviour, population and resource modelling.Importantly, the Assessment exposes important gaps in our understanding and thus outlines necessary future avenues of research. This Assessment represents a key milestone in an ongoing Elephant Research Programme.Science does not provide all the information required to resolve the difficult issues raised by the management of elephant in a changing and humandominated world. Many of the required decisions have a strong element of human values implicit in them. How do South Africans wish to treat the other species with which they share our land? Extensive consultation and careful consideration of the values expressed by a wide range of stakeholders is also an essential part of the process of managing elephant in a democratic country.I am grateful to the many experts and interested persons who invested their time, experience and intellect to deliver this Assessment. I look forward to their continued engagement on the issue of elephant management, which is of great interest to many. Marthinus van Schalkwyk Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, 2008 ContentS LiSt oF FigureS LiSt oF boxeS About the AuthorS And ContributorS Brandon Anthony is an assistant professor at the Department of EnvironmentalScienc...

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“…Perhaps one of the problems of the discipline of ecological economics is that it is still predominantly a branch of economics, divorced (often acrimoniously) from the ecologist's equivalent applied discipline of conservation biology. A recent example of this is the debate over the African elephant (compare Poole & Thomsen's 1989 analysis with that of Barbier et al 1990). Perhaps we ecologists should make more effort to bring the two disciplines together, so that ecological knowledge gets a higher priority, and the discipline changes from ecological economics into economic ecology!…”

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Ecological Economics

Milner‐Gulland

1999

Advanced Ecological Theory

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Elephants, Economics and Ivory

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Reach and messages of the world's largest ivory burn

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