Using a Systematic Approach to Select Flagship Species for Bird Conservation

Veríssimo, Diogo; Pongiluppi, Tatiana; Santos, Maria Cintia M.; Develey, Pedro F.; Fraser, Iain; Smith, Robert J.; Macmilan, Douglas C.

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“…Rather than a conditional logit model that assumes the population will be homogeneous, an LCM approach was chosen to reflect the likely presence of heterogeneity amongst respondents' preferences (Birol et al, 2009). LCMs are a relatively recent development in the choice experiment literature but have been found to successfully identify preference heterogeneity (Kontoleon and Yabe, 2006;Birol et al, 2009;Verissimo et al, 2014). This was especially important in this study, due to the diversity of nationalities, ages and types of growers who visit large international orchid shows, and the range of orchids in trade.…”

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Heterogeneity in consumer preferences for orchids in international trade and the potential for the use of market research methods to study demand for wildlife

Hinsley

Veríssimo

Roberts

2015

Biological Conservation

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a b s t r a c tThe demand for wildlife products drives an illegal trade estimated to be worth up to $10 billion per year, ranking it amongst the top transnational crimes in terms of value. Orchids are one of the best-selling plants in the legal horticultural trade but are also traded illegally and make up 70% of all species listed by the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). To study consumer preferences for horticultural orchids we use choice experiments to survey 522 orchid buyers online and at large international orchid shows. Using latent class modelling we show that different groups of consumers in our sample have distinct preferences, and that these groups are based on gender, genera grown, online purchasing and type of grower. Over half of our sample, likely to be buyers of mass-produced orchids, prefer white, multi-flowered plants. Of greater conservation interest were a smaller group consisting of male hobbyist growers who buy their orchids online, and who were willing to pay significantly more for species that are rare in trade. This is the first in-depth study of consumer preferences in the international orchid trade and our findings confirm the importance of rarity as a driver of hobbyist trade. We show that market-research methods are a new tool for conservationists that could provide evidence for more effective conservation of species threatened by trade, especially via campaigns that focus on demand reduction or behaviour change.

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“…Hanley et al, 2003) and conservation (e.g. Verissimo et al, 2014). They have also been used to study consumer preferences for mass-market orchids in Hawaii, a major producer and consumer of pot-plant orchids (Palma et al, 2010).…”

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Heterogeneity in consumer preferences for orchids in international trade and the potential for the use of market research methods to study demand for wildlife

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Veríssimo

Roberts

2015

Biological Conservation

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“…Indeed, the social sciences have been applied to understand diverse conservation and environmental management problems including, but not limited to, water governance (Armitage et al, 2012;Bakker, 2012;Curran, 2015), fisheries management (Heck et al, 2015;Symes and Hoefnagel, 2010;Wilson et al, 2013), agriculture landscape management (de Snoo et al, 2013), wildlife management (Clark et al, 2008;Gore et al, 2011;Teel and Manfredo, 2010), avian conservation (Kingston, 2016;Veríssimo et al, 2014), protected areas (Brockington and Wilkie, 2015;Ferraro and Pressey, 2015;Lockwood, 2010), forest management (Agrawal and Gupta, 2005;Allen et al, 2014;Ostrom and Nagendra, 2006;Stanturf et al, 2012) and marine conservation planning (Aswani and Hamilton, 2004;Ban et al, 2013;Cornu et al, 2014). The social sciences have also been used to research conservation and environmental management at all scales from local (Bennett et al, 2010) to regional (Pietri et al, 2015) and global (Fleischman et al, 2014).…”

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“…1 and relevant units of analysis -i.e., the subjects or objects of study. For example, at the individual scale one might study perceptions, values, attitudes or behaviors of natural resource users (Bennett, 2016;Veríssimo et al, 2014). At the global scale, social scientists might study how narratives or ideas are changing and influencing international agreementsthrough the study of policy documents, global meetings or even mentions and representations of ideas on social media (Ladle et al, 2016).…”

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Conservation social science: Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation

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It has long been claimed that a better understanding of human or social dimensions of environmental issues will improve conservation. The social sciences are one important means through which researchers and practitioners can attain that better understanding. Yet, a lack of awareness of the scope and uncertainty about the purpose of the conservation social sciences impedes the conservation community's effective engagement with the human dimensions. This paper examines the scope and purpose of eighteen subfields of classic, interdisciplinary and applied conservation social sciences and articulates ten distinct contributions that the social sciences can make to understanding and improving conservation. In brief, the conservation social sciences can be valuable to conservation for descriptive, diagnostic, disruptive, reflexive, generative, innovative, or instrumental reasons. This review and supporting materials provides a succinct yet comprehensive reference for conservation scientists and practitioners. We contend that the social sciences can help facilitate conservation policies, actions and outcomes that are more legitimate, salient, robust and effective.

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“…(http://smallwildcats.com/ south-asias-forgotten-wildcat-needs-our-help/). But even the iconic or so-called flagship species, for which conservationists would appear to more easily win public support and recognition (Veríssimo et al 2014). Biodiversity is diminishing, by some estimates, and it is likely that up to two-thirds of existing terrestrial species may be extinct by the end of this century (Kolbert 2014).…”

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The victims of unsustainability: a challenge to sustainable development goals

Kopnina

2015

International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ec

160

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Environmental unsustainability is due to both structural features and historically specific characteristics of industrial capitalism resulting in specific patterns of production and consumption, as well as population growth. Sustainability literature criticises the established corporate and political power hegemonies, interested in maintaining economic growth, as well as inability or unwillingness of citizen-consumers to counteract these hegemonic tendencies. Yet, official policies are still targeted at social and economic 'development' as a panacea for unsustainability challenges. Instead, renewed accent on social and economic objectives are outlined by a set of sustainable development goals (SDG) that include objectives of fighting poverty, promoting better health, reducing mortality, and stimulating equitable economic growth. What is less commonly critiqued is the underlying morality of unsustainability and ethical questions concerned with the 'victims of unsustainability' outside of socioeconomic discourse. The achievement of SDG goals, as will be further elaborated on in this article, is unlikely to lead to greater social equality and economic prosperity, but to a greater spread of unsustainable production and consumption, continuous economic as well as population growth that has caused environmental problems in the first place and further objectification of environment and its elements. This article argues that an invocation of ethical duty toward environment and its elements is required in order to move beyond the current status quo. Such ethical approach to unsustainability can effectively address the shortcomings of the mainstream sustainability discourse that is mainly anthropocentric and therefore fails to identify the correct locus of unsustainability.

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Using a Systematic Approach to Select Flagship Species for Bird Conservation

Abstract: D. Veríssimo, email verissimodiogo@gmail.com, or R. J. Smith, email R.J.Smith@kent.ac.uk Paper submitted August 3, 2012; revised manuscript accepted May 4, 2013.

Cited by 64 publications

References 27 publications

Heterogeneity in consumer preferences for orchids in international trade and the potential for the use of market research methods to study demand for wildlife

Heterogeneity in consumer preferences for orchids in international trade and the potential for the use of market research methods to study demand for wildlife

Conservation social science: Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation

The victims of unsustainability: a challenge to sustainable development goals

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