Value of wildlife

Question 1

What are the two types of value?

Answer 1

Instrumental value

Intrinsic value

Question 2

What is instrumental value?

Answer 2

The value of something as a means to another’s ends

Question 3

What is intrinsic value?

Answer 3

The value as something as an end in itself

Question 4

How can something have instrumental value?

Answer 4

Can receive an economic valuation via the market or a shadow price

Question 5

What is a shadow price?

Answer 5

something used to price something that isn’t traded in the market

Question 6

What is the travel cost method?

Answer 6

A way of giving something a shadow price based on the money spent to experience it, foregone income, or the number of visitors it attracts

Question 7

What is hedonic pricing?

Answer 7

Looking at the price of something based on how it compares to other equivalent things, e.g. an ocean front property vs a house not on the ocean

Question 8

What is contingent valuation?

Answer 8

A way of shadow pricing based on the willingness of people to pay for something

Question 9

What is an unintended effect of something having intrinsic value?

Answer 9

It creates a black market

Question 10

What is consumptive use of wildlife?

Answer 10

Removing animals from the wild for subsistence and recreation

Question 11

What is “harvesting”

Answer 11

reaping what humans have sown

NOT gathering from the wild what nature produced

Question 12

What are four reasons why animals might be removed from the wild?

Answer 12

Collection for zoos and pet trade
commercial hunting
subsistence hunting
recreational hunting

Question 13

What is game?

Answer 13

Fallow deer, bison or reindeer

Question 14

Why is hunting allowed in BC?

Answer 14

long standing recreational and commercial activity
feed families
protection from predators
protect agricultural crops
provide recreation

Question 15

What are the “edible portions” of an animal?

Answer 15

Neck, ribs, four quarters and loins

Question 16

Why are non-residents allowed to hunt in BC?

Answer 16

long standing tradition

guide clients are one of the highest spending tourists per capita in BC

Question 17

What is allocation?

Answer 17

process by which the available harvest of a particular wildlife population is divided amongst consumptive users

Question 18

What is the order of allocation?

Answer 18

Conservation
First Nations
Resident and Guide outfitters

Question 19

How are First Nations traditional hunting rights affected by Harvest Allocation Policy?

Answer 19

First Nations hunt isn’t affected
Prior to setting allocations between resident and guided hunters calculations done to ensure overharvesting won’t occur, and takes into account naturally occurring mortality and First Nations harvesting

Question 20

Why is it better to kill a bull than a cow?

Answer 20

Because pregnant cow will produce larger population in future so more sustainable

Question 21

What age range of yellowstone elk to hunters usually kill?

Answer 21

2-9 years. Adult. High reproductive value

Question 22

What age ranges of yellowstone elk do wolves kill most?

Answer 22

calves and old (10+). Little reproductive value

Question 23

What is wildlife tourism?

Answer 23

recreation associated with interacting with wildlife.

Can be consumptive or non-consumptive

Question 24

What are the four types of non-consumptive wildlife use?

Answer 24

viewing
listening
feeding
catch and release

Question 25

What are three examples of viewing animals

Answer 25

wildlife safaris
bird watching
wildlife phenomena

Question 26

What are some costs of viewing and listening to wildlife?

Answer 26

puts humans in proximity to wildlife
increased use of the area
creates a market for wildlife parks
disturbs wildlife
habituates wildlife to people
exposes hidden prey to predators or predators to prey
exposure of wildlife to dogs
attacks on humans increased

Question 27

What are some costs of feeding wildlife?

Answer 27

dependence on humans
habituate wildlife (e.g. bears)
promote predation
attract rats and mice
spread disease

Question 28

What are some costs of catch and release fishing?

Answer 28

stress and pain of being hooked
requires proper equipment
fish swallowing the hook
energy expenditure by fish
requires proper handling
damage to scales
survival rates not well understood