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Enforcement Trumps Encouragement


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Antipoaching patrols help wildlife more than local economic development

By Robin Meadows
April-June 2007 (Vol. 8, No. 2)

R. Hilborn et al. 2006. Effective enforcement in a conservation area. Science 314:1266.


What's the most cost-effective way to protect wildlife in African national parks? Working to develop local economies and providing alternatives to poaching, or simply increasing law enforcement? The latter may be enough, according to new research in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park. Antipoaching patrols there have spurred a recent resurgence of animals.

This work is reported in Science by Ray Hilborn of the University of Washington in Seattle and seven coauthors. The researchers teased out the



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