When the protection of a threatened species depends on the economy of a foreign nation
A significant challenge of conservation biology is to preserve species in places where their critical habitat also attracts significant economic interest. The problem is compounded when species distributions occur across large spatial extents. Threatened boreal caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) ep...
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ftrepec:oai:RePEc:plo:pone00:0229555 2023-05-15T18:04:19+02:00 When the protection of a threatened species depends on the economy of a foreign nation Daniel Fortin Philip D McLoughlin Mark Hebblewhite https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0229555 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0229555&type=printable unknown https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0229555 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0229555&type=printable article ftrepec 2020-12-04T13:31:57Z A significant challenge of conservation biology is to preserve species in places where their critical habitat also attracts significant economic interest. The problem is compounded when species distributions occur across large spatial extents. Threatened boreal caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) epitomize this problem: their critical habitat encompasses a vast expanse of forest that also supplies much of Canada’s merchantable timber. Boreal caribou were protected under the Canada Species at Risk Act in 2003. We investigated putative drivers of reduced disturbance for caribou habitat since then. Where the cumulative logging footprint slowed within caribou habitat, this has resulted neither from decreases in annual allowable cut of timber nor the creation or expansion of protected areas. Rather, it has fluctuated with the American economy relative to that of Canada. For each $0.05 US lost over the $CAD, 129 km2 of caribou habitat was not disturbed by logging in a given year. Recent population declines have been occurring even though logging typically remained at Article in Journal/Newspaper Rangifer tarandus RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) Canada |
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A significant challenge of conservation biology is to preserve species in places where their critical habitat also attracts significant economic interest. The problem is compounded when species distributions occur across large spatial extents. Threatened boreal caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) epitomize this problem: their critical habitat encompasses a vast expanse of forest that also supplies much of Canada’s merchantable timber. Boreal caribou were protected under the Canada Species at Risk Act in 2003. We investigated putative drivers of reduced disturbance for caribou habitat since then. Where the cumulative logging footprint slowed within caribou habitat, this has resulted neither from decreases in annual allowable cut of timber nor the creation or expansion of protected areas. Rather, it has fluctuated with the American economy relative to that of Canada. For each $0.05 US lost over the $CAD, 129 km2 of caribou habitat was not disturbed by logging in a given year. Recent population declines have been occurring even though logging typically remained at |
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Daniel Fortin Philip D McLoughlin Mark Hebblewhite When the protection of a threatened species depends on the economy of a foreign nation |
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When the protection of a threatened species depends on the economy of a foreign nation |
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When the protection of a threatened species depends on the economy of a foreign nation |
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