Killer @Greens technologies
19 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: endangered species
One thing that we know that helps endangered animals more than endangered species lists is giving people ownership rights over animals
15 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economics of regulation, law and economics, property rights Tags: endangered species
Why Trophy Hunting Can Be Good for Animals
29 Oct 2017 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, law and economics, property rights Tags: endangered species
Saving Endangered Species
25 Sep 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis Tags: endangered species, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Repugnant markets and the demand and supply for counterfeit legal ivory
17 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of crime, entrepreneurship, law and economics, property rights Tags: black markets, counterfeit goods, economics of prohibition, endangered species, offsetting the, unintended consequences
A huge legal sale of ivory in 2008 backfired. Instead of crashing the price of ivory and undermining poaching, poaching exploded in East Africa. It increased by 65%.
The international trade in ivory was banned in 1989. In 2008, China and Japan were allowed to pay $15m for 107 tonnes of ivory from elephants that died naturally in four African nations.
Source: Study finds global legalization trial escalates elephant poaching | Berkeley News.
Hsiang and Sekar this week found that this legal sale of ivory was followed by “an abrupt, significant, permanent, robust and geographically widespread increase” in ivory poaching. They were right to conclude that the legal sale provided a cover for poached ivory.
The economic intuition was that if we allow the sale of some legal ivory in Japan and China, then there would be fewer people left to purchase it illegally. We found that that intuition was incorrect. The black market for ivory responded to the announcement of a legal sale as an opportunity to smuggle even more ivory.
The legal sale of ivory created new demand for ivory in China, where it no longer had the stigma of an illicit product. The presence of legal ivory provided cover for smugglers trying to peddle illegal ivory sourced from poachers.
As illegal ivory can now masquerade as legal ivory in China, transporting and selling illicit ivory has gotten easier and cheaper, which can boost illegal production even though prices are falling.
Ivory is a repugnant market. Many friends will be revolted by you having ivory products.
The presence of legal ivory made it possible for counterfeit legal ivory to be passed off as legal ivory and therefore your friends will not reject you. This is a real and striking example of a unintended consequence. The solution to poaching is property rights.
Many conservationists are against effective rhino conservation
23 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, law and economics, property rights Tags: Africa, agricultural economics, do gooders, economics of conservation, economics of endangered species, endangered species, expressive voting, Leftover Left, Twitter left, unintended consequences
https://twitter.com/ConversationUK/status/646227223716872197/photo/1
https://twitter.com/dlAfrican/status/646215227076292608
Capturing the economic value of wildlife for the benefit of wildlife. New in PERC Reports: bit.ly/1JHerwj http://t.co/yijFIChPDo—
PERC (@PERCtweets) September 13, 2015
How private ownership and trophy hunting saved the southern white rhino: bit.ly/1HhZy55 #WorldRhinoDay http://t.co/s4PudPwrrI—
PERC (@PERCtweets) September 22, 2015
How humans cause mass extinctions?
17 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, environmentalism Tags: cranks, doomsday prophets, endangered species, Paul Ehrlich
HT: MasterResource
Zimbabwe Quietly Re-Opens Lion Hunts After Outcry Over The Killing of “Cecil the Lion”
12 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
The anti-hunting choir has a lot to answer for. #auspol http://t.co/2FGgC11VZp—
David Leyonhjelm (@DavidLeyonhjelm) August 17, 2015
Zimbabwe has its ban on lion, leopard and elephant hunting that it imposed after the illegal killing of the beloved “Cecil the Lion” by Minnesota Dentist Walter Palmer. Hunting companies were told that they could start to line up wealthy trophy hunters again for bag the big game. In the meantime, conservationists have come forward to defend trophy hunting as a needed source of revenue for these parks.
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The economics of trophy hunting
03 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, environmental economics, law and economics, property rights Tags: Africa, antimarket bias, conservation, economics of conservation, endangered species, expressive voting, offsetting behaviour, rational irrationality, The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge, uninte
Cecil
30 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
Before #CecilTheLion, hunter Kendall Jones said hunting is crucial to conservation. False. bit.ly/1tvr5wj http://t.co/SV5FeANMsE—
(@PolitiFact) July 30, 2015PHOTO: #ZebraLivesMatter http://t.co/fUGjFKfJXP—
Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) August 03, 2015
| Peter Klein |
No doubt you’ve heard about Walter Palmer, the American dentist who shot the lion, “Cecil,” in Zimbabwe, pushing aside Sir Tim Hunt as the Internet’s Most Hated Person. (Aside from calling Palmer cruel and depraved — even wishing his death by bow and arrow — some are labeling him a sociopath, which makes me wonder, are lions now considered members of society? Orgheads?)
I don’t hunt and have no particular emotional attachment to lions, so I find the outrage level bewildering. However, I think this can be a teachable moment. Specifically, there are lessons here about trophy hunting and endangered species. Not surprisingly to anyone who has studied property-rights economics, there is evidence that allowing trophy hunting is a good means of protecting endangered species. This is a version of the general argument that defining and enforcing property rights in scarce resources, including wildlife, provides incentives…
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How many of each of the threatened species still exist?
08 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in law and economics, property rights Tags: endangered species
How many are left in the wild http://t.co/QiipyAGkZF—
Charts and Maps (@ChartsandMaps) April 12, 2015
What are the prices on the black market for animal parts?
01 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, environmentalism, law and economics, property rights Tags: black markets, economics of prohibition, endangered species, offsetting behaviour, or unintended consequences
Animated #Dailychart: Bear bile, rhino horn, tiger bone–how much do animal products cost? econ.st/1nfrFKf http://t.co/oG5HtZvzOL—
The Economist (@ECONdailycharts) July 23, 2014
Wind power is bad for the environment
07 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism, endangered species, green hypocrisy, killer green technologies
Killer green technologies alert: wind farms kill protected endangered species
23 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics Tags: activists, endangered species, expressive voting, green hypocrisy, killer green technologies, Leftover Left, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, windfarms
Killer green technologies alert: wind farms ‘kill confused bats’:
02 Oct 2014 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming Tags: endangered species, global warming, green hypocrisy, killer green technologies
Over 600,000 bats were killed by wind turbines in the United States in 2012 including endangered species.
via Wind farms ‘kill confused bats’: Turbines are deadly to the animals as they create same air currents as trees, so they fly too close | Daily Mail Online.
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