Financial instruments and wildlife-related benefits

Monetary compensation in Human Wildlife Conflicts

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The scheme provides cash relief of 1 million NRs (1 USD equivalent to NRs 115 in 2019) in case of human deaths to victim family. The cash relief also compensates for crop damages, property loss and livestock loss. The scheme includes 14 wildlife species namely Bear, Tiger, Rhino,...

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Damage Prevention Measures through the Greek Rural Development Programme

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To facilitate the long-term sustainability of this measure, Greek eNGOs initiated an extensive consultation and negotiation processes with national competent authorities, mainly the Ministry of Rural Development and Food so that financial support for the measure would be included...

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Holistic land and livestock management

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From my lion work in the past, 90% of cattle killed by lions are killed when grazing without a herder. When I was a child in Zimbabwe, I never saw a herd of cattle alone without a herder. Therefore, something has changed.
When we ask what has changed, the answer is that t...

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Salviamo l’Ors – Plus-value for beekeepers by the gift of endemic bees

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Both the Marsican brown bear (Ursus arctos marsicanus) and the Italian honey bee (Apis mellifera ligustica) are threatened by the alteration of ecosystems caused by humans. If the bear is critically endangered and on the verge of extinction, then the bees are not safe either. The...

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Insurance-based conservation system

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Insurance to offset other costs related to depredation (such as abortions, loss of milk production and subsidies per livestock head)

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Ex-post compensation system

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Ex-post compensation covering up to 100% of the market value of livestock depredated by wolves and up to 60% of the value of livestock depredated by dogs.

In this study, they "conclude
that compensation may fail to improve tolerance toward carnivores unless it...

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User-friendly mobile phone

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A simple user-friendly mobile phone system to help villagers near two Indian national parks report crop and livestock damages to authorities and receive appropriate compensation.

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Voluntary based compensation system

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Cattle losses induced by jaguars could be compensated by a system of voluntary donations from tourists

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White Dogs Fund

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Program to foster donation in order to support people in rural areas who shoulder the real cost of co-existing with wolves, brown bears and lynx with prompt and practical assistance to resolve conflicts.

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Interim Relief Scheme (Cattle Compensation Programme)

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With the objective of alleviating this situation, The Corbett Foundation (TCF), a conservation NGO working in India, launched the Cattle Compensation Scheme in 1995 to give interim and on-the-spot financial assistance to villagers, whose cattle have been killed by a tiger or a le...

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