What is it about?
Conservation of large carnivores like lions, leopards and tigers is very expensive. This paper looks at the willingness of tourists in Nepal to pay a fee for conserving snow leopards. We discover that even though tourists may never see a snow leopard they are very willing to pay a lot of money for their protection.
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Why is it important?
Conservation is expensive and practitioners, researchers, park managers etc. are always looking for new avenues to generate funds for conservation. This article shows that tourists may be willing to pay fees for conserving a highly charismatic species over and above the compulsory park fees. This is something that needs to be applied to more species to determine whether the same is true.
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It was incredible hard work to bring this publication to reality, from countless freezing days in the high himalaya to writing it up in the African bush. Its been a pleasure to work with my colleagues and I couldn't have done it without them. We hope that this work will help to change the perspective on how funds can be raised for conservation.
Maurice Schutgens
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This page is a summary of: Visitors’ willingness to pay for snow leopard Panthera uncia conservation in the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal, Oryx, March 2018, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0030605317001636.
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