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

Some believe that provision of private property rights in wildlife on private land provides 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 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 is being experimented with, in the Northern Territory of Australia where landholders had a possibility of harvesting on their properties a quota of eggs and chicks of red-tailed black cockatoos for commercial sale. This scheme was expected to provide an incentive to private landholders to retain hollow trees essential for the nesting of these birds but failed. This case and others are analysed. Despite private-property failures, the long-term survival of some wildlife species depends on their ability to use private lands without severe harassment, either for their migration or to supplement their available resources, for example, the Asian elephant. Nature conservation on private land is often a useful, if not essential, supplement to conservation on public lands. Community and public incentives for such conservation are outlined

Conflicts between capuchin monkeys and visitors inside the Brasília National Park: possible solutions

Os conflitos entre os visitantes e os macacos-prego na área das piscinas do Parque Nacional de Brasília (PNB) têm origem na presença de alimentos levados pelos próprios visitantes, objetos de atração dos macacos-prego. Com base na literatura e resultados de pesquisas desenvolvidas no próprio local, o trabalho apresenta as recomendações à administração do PNB para reduzir os níveis de o conflito.The conflicts between the capuchin monkeys and the visitors inside the swimming pool areas of the Brasilia National Park (Brazil) lays on the presence of the food handled by the visitors, which attracts the monkeys. Based on the literature and on the results of researches developed in this National Park, this works presents some proposals to the National Park administration to get lower incidence of conflicts