Conservation Risks: When Will Rhinos be Extinct?

IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
Timothy C Haas, Sam M Ferreira

Abstract

We develop a risk intelligence system for biodiversity enterprises. Such enterprises depend on a supply of endangered species for their revenue. Many of these enterprises, however, cannot purchase a supply of this resource and are largely unable to secure the resource against theft in the form of poaching. Because replacements are not available once a species becomes extinct, insurance products are not available to reduce the risk exposure of these enterprises to an extinction event. For many species, the dynamics of anthropogenic impacts driven by economic as well as noneconomic values of associated wildlife products along with their ecological stressors can help meaningfully predict extinction risks. We develop an agent/individual-based economic-ecological model that captures these effects and apply it to the case of South African rhinos. Our model uses observed rhino dynamics and poaching statistics. It seeks to predict rhino extinction under the present scenario. This scenario has no legal horn trade, but allows live African rhino trade and legal hunting. Present rhino populations are small and threatened by a rising onslaught of poaching. This present scenario and associated dynamics predicts continued decline in rhino pop...Continue Reading

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Dec 17, 2017·Ecological Applications : a Publication of the Ecological Society of America·Timothy C Haas, Sam M Ferreira
Nov 22, 2016·PloS One·Timothy C Haas, Sam M Ferreira
Oct 24, 2018·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences·Joris P G M CromsigtFelisa A Smith
Aug 25, 2020·Global Ecology and Conservation·Jasper A J EikelboomHerbert H T Prins

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