{"id":5082,"date":"2016-11-15T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=5082"},"modified":"2016-11-15T10:25:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T15:25:00","slug":"elephant-poaching-can-hurt-tourism-new-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/elephant-poaching-can-hurt-tourism-new-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephant poaching can hurt tourism, new study finds  <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5080\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5080\" class=\"wp-image-5080\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/unnamed.jpg\" alt=\"A male savannah elephant in Tarangire National Park in Tanzania. (Image by Robin Naidoo \/ WWF)\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/unnamed.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/unnamed-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A male savannah elephant in Tarangire National Park in Tanzania. <i>(Image by Robin Naidoo \/ WWF)<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<p>In just seven years, from 2007 to 2014, the elephant population in Africa has been reduced by 30 percent &#8211; in large part as a result of poaching for ivory. This decline, aside from its disastrous consequences for the species, can also bring about major economic losses. A new modelling study has estimated a loss of $25 million per year in the African tourism industry. Study authors calculated tourism revenue from visitors to elephant conservation areas, and found that benefits of elephant-related tourism exceed the anti-poaching costs in several African regions. They suggest eco-tourism as a viable alternative to the ivory industry to bring revenue, benefit local communities and preserve African elephant populations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Robin Naidoo, Brendan Fisher, Andrea Manica &amp; Andrew Balmford<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canadian contributor: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Robin Naidoo, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z4<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/ncomms13379\" target=\"_blank\">Original paper <\/a>published in <em>Nature Communications<\/em> on November 1, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In just seven years, from 2007 to 2014, the elephant population in Africa has been reduced by 30 percent &#8211; in large part as a result of poaching for ivory. This decline, aside from its disastrous consequences for the species, can also bring about major economic losses. A new modelling study has estimated a loss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2708,2709,2707,2705,2706],"class_list":["post-5082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-africa","tag-conservation-biology","tag-ecotourism","tag-elephants","tag-ivory-poaching"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/unnamed.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1jY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5083,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5082\/revisions\/5083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}