Encore: How Do We Value Wildlife with Calvin Cottar - a podcast by Eli Weiss

New conservation models and strategies are ripe for out of the box thinking to be responsive to the hierarchy of needs and shifts in both multi-use landscapes and various value systems, with economic benefits based upon productivity through payment for ecosystem services (PES). If wildlife has no value to the local private landowners that depend 100% on living off their land, then wildlife will not be considered as part of the economic equation of payment or solutions, or via utilization- a slippery term in itself. Through 'wildlife user rights', Wildlife Forums, a process was designed to culminate in devolved user rights and conservation responsibility to land owners , bringing landowners needs into the country’s wildlife policy. Whether we like it or not, coexistence comes at a price– how we define ‘price’, how it’s paid for and by whom, is the topic Calvin and I discuss today.

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