Population Management

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Population Management
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Desert Bighorn Sheep
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Whitetail Deer
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Wild Turkey
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Wood Duck
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Restoration of desert streams and fish populations
Before After
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Reintroductions more successful when

• organisms must be translocated into undegraded
  habitat
• substantial numbers of individuals must be
  reintroduced - often many of them over a long
  period of time
• careful husbandry of the species may be required
  - providing food, water or controlling species
  which may have a negative effect on the species

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Pacific Salmon Species
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Desert Tortoise
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Desert Tortoise Habitat
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Austrian Ibex
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Peregrine Falcon British subspecies - peregrinus
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Peregrine Falcon Alaskan coastal subspecies -
pealei
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Peregrine Falcon Range Map
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Economics of Conservation
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Economics - Basic

• Economics is a tool which helps us answer 3 basic
  questions
• 1. What commodities should be produced and in
  what quantity?
• 2. How should we produce those goods? and
• 3. For whom should we produce those goods?

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Descriptive Economics

• The description of economic facts and
  relationships falls under the category of
  descriptive economics - it is relatively
  speaking, a pure science and is objective and its
  questions can only be answered by facts

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Normative Economics

• Normative Economics addresses questions that
  cannot be answered by facts and figures - where
  there are no right and wrong answers but rather
  questions of should or ought, instead they
  are questions about value judgments and must be
  decided by social and political processes

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Two Basic Economic Systems

• 1. Command economy in which the government
  dictates production and distribution goals
• 2. In a market economy companies generally
  produce goods and services which produce the
  highest profit thus answering the first question
  of what to produce and how much. Profit also
  dictates how goods are produced. For whom is
  answered by ability to pay.

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Elephant Ivory for Sale
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Oil Prices
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BFI Monopoly?
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External Cost

• External Cost, a cost to society not paid by the
  manufacturer or its customers

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External Costs