You're invited! Conserving wildlife through trading wildlife

Enterprise Hub, Vinson Building, University of BuckinghamEnterprise Hub, Vinson Building, University of Buckingham
Enterprise Hub, Vinson Building, University of Buckingham
Dr Francis Vorhies explores the increasingly popular concept of a wildlife economy and also reflects a bit on the place of the wild in classical economic thought.

Wednesday 19th February, 16:00 - 18:00

Enterprise Hub, Vinson Building (1st floor), University of Buckingham

The trade in ivory is banned to protect elephants. The trade in horn is banned to protect rhinos. The import of hunting trophies is banned to protected hunted species. But what if these trade bans are not working and trading wildlife is actually the way to conserve it? Though the Global Biodiversity Framework, international policy makers recognise that we should ensure that the harvesting and trade of wild species is sustainable, legal, and beneficial to people. Could liberalised markets for wildlife-based goods and services be the way to conserve wildlife? This talk will explore the increasingly popular concept of a wildlife economy and also reflect a bit on the place of the wild in classical economic thought.

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Dr Francis Vorhies is a conservation economist and most recently has been the founding director of the African Wildlife Economy Institute Stellenbosch University South Africa, After completing his economics doctorate at the University of Colorado with a thesis on the monetary theories of Karl Marx and Ludwig von Mises, his attention turned to the opportunities to conserve nature by privatising it. opportun He has also been a resident economist at the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at the University of Oxford.

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