What's the Value of Biodiversity?
Re: Concerning new "Survey" from SanParks
ok... so here is a question...
do you have to pay before you go on the game drive?
if so...... what happens if you have only paid to see leopard,
and there are elephants in the road ........
do you have to look away??
or do they blindfold you until a leopard is in sight ???
if you only pay after the game drive ...
then what if you exceed your budget before the drive is over??
do you have to put on a blindfold.......
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Very clever! -O
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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." Nelson Mandela
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What's the Value of Biodiversity?
The African Journal of Marine Science has published an article "Are African penguins worth saving? The ecotourism value of the Boulders Beach colony"
Does biodiversity have an intrinsic value that is worth protecting regardless of its value to humans? Or is the importance of biodiversity the performance of ecological services for humankind that have economic, aesthetic or recreational value?
Abstract
Populations of the African penguin Spheniscus demersus have decreased dramatically over the past century, due in part to competition for food with commercial fisheries, and the species is now endangered as a result. Economic arguments are used to favour fisheries over the needs of penguins, but penguins have direct value to the South African economy thanks to penguin-based tourism at several breeding colonies. We estimated the value of African penguins at the most important tourist site for African penguins: Boulders on the Cape Peninsula, South Africa. As a mainland colony close to Cape Town, Boulders is accessible to large numbers of visitors; gate revenues in 2009/2010 alone were R14.5 million (US$2 million). A zonal travel-cost analysis revealed an average consumer surplus among Cape Town residents of some R20 per visit. Penguin-based tourism thus forms an integral part of the R25 billion Western Cape tourism sector. Given that the future survival of this valuable resource is dependent, among others, on the availability of sufficient prey, competition with South Africa's purse-seine fishing fleet should be limited through management strategies that lessen the potential effects of fishing on prey available at the local scale.
Does biodiversity have an intrinsic value that is worth protecting regardless of its value to humans? Or is the importance of biodiversity the performance of ecological services for humankind that have economic, aesthetic or recreational value?
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It is abundantly clear that our present .gov lately feels wild animals have to pay their own way...and organisations are starting to realise that, it seems?
In a report like that you must mention money to get their attention...
In a report like that you must mention money to get their attention...
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Is it possible that everything has to be measured in money value? The penguins have a value both because they are unique in South Africa, because they are wild animals that have a right on a territory and I am sure that they also have their place in the biodiversity scale as they feed on something specific. Where is the respect for all the creatures and plants that used to live on this earth before humans turned up to spoil it all? Let us at least try to save the little that is left!!!!
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Yes! Money or communities or land claims... Take your pick!Lisbeth wrote:Is it possible that everything has to be measured in money value?
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Re: What's the Value of Biodiversity?
It's a common approach by so-called environmental economists and believe it or not - it's a contribution to tell governments and societies all over the world that biodiversity is important at least a useful valuable part of it
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Might be the only language they know (0)
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