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  • Breaking the deadlock on ivory

    Author(s)
    Biggs, Duan
    Holden, Matthew H
    Braczkowski, Alex
    Cook, Carly N
    Milner-Gulland, EJ
    Phelps, Jacob
    Scholes, Robert J
    Smith, Robert J
    Underwood, Fiona M
    Adams, Vanessa M
    Allan, James
    Brink, Henry
    Cooney, Rosie
    Gao, Yufang
    Hutton, Jon
    Macdonald-Madden, Eve
    Maron, Martine
    Redford, Kent H
    Sutherland, William J
    Possingham, Hugh P
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Biggs, Duan
    Year published
    2017
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    Abstract
    Poaching for ivory has caused a steep decline in African elephant (Loxodonta africana, see the photo) populations over the past decade (1). This crisis has fueled a contentious global debate over which ivory policy would best protect elephants: banning all ivory trade or enabling regulated trade to incentivize and fund elephant conservation (2). The deep-seated deadlock on ivory policy consumes valuable resources and creates an antagonistic environment among elephant conservationists. Successful solutions must begin by recognizing the different values that influence stakeholder cognitive frameworks of how actions lead to ...
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    Poaching for ivory has caused a steep decline in African elephant (Loxodonta africana, see the photo) populations over the past decade (1). This crisis has fueled a contentious global debate over which ivory policy would best protect elephants: banning all ivory trade or enabling regulated trade to incentivize and fund elephant conservation (2). The deep-seated deadlock on ivory policy consumes valuable resources and creates an antagonistic environment among elephant conservationists. Successful solutions must begin by recognizing the different values that influence stakeholder cognitive frameworks of how actions lead to outcomes (“mental models”) (3), and therefore their diverging positions on ivory trade (4). Based on successful conflict resolution in other areas, we propose an iterative process through which countries with wild elephant populations may be able to understand their differences and develop workable solutions in a less confrontational manner.
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    Journal Title
    Science
    Volume
    358
    Issue
    6369
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aan5215
    Subject
    Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/370176
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