Towards a cost-benefit analysis of South Africa’s captive predator breeding industry

This paper critiques the conservation and economic claims advanced by the captive predator breeding industry in South Africa. It contends that captive lion breeding offers no direct conservation value. Similarly, claims of economic significance and indirect conservation value are tenuous in light of...

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Main Author: Ross Graeme Harvey, D.Phil (Economics)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-09-01
Series:Global Ecology and Conservation
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989420306983