Economic benefit of wildlife reintroduction: A case of elk hunting in Tennessee, USA

Chapagain, Binod; Poudyal, Neelam C.

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110808

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“…The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) released 201 elk into the zone between 2000 and 2008, and these were estimated to be c. 350 in number by 2016 (Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency 2018). A lottery-based hunting programme has since been established to manage the elk population in the region (Chapagain & Poudyal 2020).…”

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Risk perception, trust and support for wildlife reintroduction and conservation

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Summary Wildlife reintroduction projects often face resistance from local residents who see potential conflicts with the species or lack trust or confidence in the agencies and professionals involved in reintroduction. Yet the linkages between trust, confidence, risk perceptions, attitudes towards the species and local support for its reintroduction are not well known. The Dual-Mode Model of Cooperation and Cognitive Hierarchy Model were theoretical frameworks used to shed light on these linkages by exploring the potential roles trust and confidence play as mediators between risk perceptions and attitudes towards, and support for, reintroduced elk in Tennessee (USA). A mail survey of 1005 residents living in the five-county area surrounding the North Cumberland Elk Restoration Zone assessed resident attitudes and risk perceptions towards the reintroduced elk, trust towards the managing wildlife agency and support for continued conservation efforts. A structural equation model revealed that trust and confidence play positive roles in mitigating risk perceptions and improving support for the reintroduction of elk. The findings confirm the roles public trust and confidence play in wildlife reintroductions and should help agencies work towards building local trust and confidence, minimizing risks, improving attitudes and increasing the chances for successful outcomes for the species and people.

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“…The methodology adopted is the travel-cost method, one of the most widely used methodologies for estimating the recreational value of this type of CES [37]. The recreational use value is a very important parameter to structure short-and long-term land management and to development policies that assess not only the values of market products (e.g., timber and agricultural products), but also the values of non-market services (e.g., landscape and recreation) generated by territories.…”

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“…The monetary value of recreational activities like hunting is not easy to determine, as there is no real market for these services and consequently there is no market price. In economics, to estimate the benefits generated by non-market goods or services, different evaluation methods are used, which can be divided into stated or revealed preference methods [37,42,59]. Revealed preference methods relate the enjoyment of non-market environmental goods or services to the costs incurred for the purchase of market goods that are indispensable to benefit from the good or service under analysis [42].…”

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“…Instead, the economic evaluation methodology used in the present research was the travel-cost method (TCM). First of all, it is the most widely used method in the literature for the assessment of CESs in general [11,12,[36][37][38][39][40][41]. Moreover, there are many studies in the literature that use TCM to estimate the value of recreational activities such as hunting [37][38][39][40]42], in which travel, even of considerable length, is necessary to enjoy an activity practiced exclusively in rural areas far from urban contexts.…”

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“…First of all, it is the most widely used method in the literature for the assessment of CESs in general [11,12,[36][37][38][39][40][41]. Moreover, there are many studies in the literature that use TCM to estimate the value of recreational activities such as hunting [37][38][39][40]42], in which travel, even of considerable length, is necessary to enjoy an activity practiced exclusively in rural areas far from urban contexts. In fact, because of this, the costs incurred for travel represent a significant factor within the total expenditure incurred annually by hunters that is worth investigating.…”

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Economic benefit of wildlife reintroduction: A case of elk hunting in Tennessee, USA

Cited by 14 publications

References 38 publications

Risk perception, trust and support for wildlife reintroduction and conservation

Risk perception, trust and support for wildlife reintroduction and conservation

A Model for the Economic Evaluation of Cultural Ecosystem Services: The Recreational Hunting Function in the Agroforestry Territories of Tuscany (Italy)

Quantifying impacts of recreation on elk (Cervus canadensis) using novel modeling approaches

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