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Butterfly Farming in Papua New Guinea
Butterfly Farming in Papua New Guinea
Butterfly Farming in Gumi, Papua New Guinea
Author: Brendan Moyle
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 12
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Wildlife farming has conservation and development objectives, but is often controversial. If wild animal populations remain in an open-access state, overharvest is likely. This research analyse goliath butterfly farming in the village Gumi, the largest source, in Papua New Guinea. Butterfly farming entails attracting gravid butterflies to modified habitat and collecting a portion. Interactions between farmers are mediated by their location decision. This interaction is tested indirectly through impacts on harvest levels of other farms. An econometric model incorporating harvest levels, effort and prices is estimated. The results support farmers locating sites far enough apart to eliminate potential interactions. This overcomes any potential open-access problem. This conclusion is strengthened by the absence of regulatory and customary mechanisms to achieve this outcome.
Butterfly Farming in Papua New Ginea ; Report of an Ad Hoo Panel of the Advisory Committee on Technology Innovation, Board on Science and Technology for International Development, Office of International Affairs, National Research Council, in Cooperation with the Insect Council, in Cooperation with the Insect Farming and Trading Agency, Bulolo, Papua New Guinea
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Science and Technology for International Development
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 34
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Butterflies, Wildlife Farming and Open Access
Author: Brendan Moyle
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 17
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Open access regimes generate a serious conservation risk to harvested species. Nonetheless, the assumption that open-access applies to cases of wildlife farming is rarely tested whilst often assumed. This assumption merits testing. The birdwing butterfly Ornithoptera priamus is employed as a case to detect the presence of open access with butterfly-farming in Papua New Guinea. One of the rationales for selecting Papua New Guinea was the absence of government enforcement effort to regulate harvest or deter poaching. A fixed-effects panel-data regression using behaviour across eleven provinces was employed. The data set had records of 56,000 harvested butterflies. Open access conditions were not detected. It is posited that the two intermediary organisations purchasing butterflies for export sale did not share the open-access incentive to over-harvest. Further they were able to use their market power to influence the farmers to maintain sustainable practices.
Food and Agriculture in Papua New Guinea
Author: R. Michael Bourke
Publisher: ANU E Press
Published: 2009-08-01
Total Pages: 665
ISBN-13: 1921536616
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Agriculture dominates the rural economy of Papua New Guinea (PNG). More than five million rural dwellers (80% of the population) earn a living from subsistence agriculture and selling crops in domestic and international markets. Many aspects of agriculture in PNG are described in this data-rich book. Topics include agricultural environments in which crops are grown; production of food crops, cash crops and animals; land use; soils; demography; migration; the macro-economic environment; gender issues; governance of agricultural institutions; and transport. The history of agriculture over the 50 000 years that PNG has been occupied by humans is summarised. Much of the information presented is not readily available within PNG. The book contains results of many new analyses, including a food budget for the entire nation. The text is supported by 165 tables and 215 maps and figures.
Papua New Guinea Conservation Needs Assessment
Butterflies
Author: Gloria G. Schlaepfer
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9780761417453
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes the evolution, physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, and life cycle of the butterfly.
Conservation and the Use of Wildlife Resources
Author: Melvin Bolton
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9400914458
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Not everybody cares about the fate of wild animals or the state of the natural environment. I met a lady who said it wouldn't worry her if all the wild animals in the world disappeared overnight. She was a city person~ she said. There are also people who would prefer to let animals become extinct than to have them kept in captivity - no matter how progressive the zoo. There are those who, on principle, will not eat meat, let alone do the killing, and there are those who enjoy nothing so much as shooting birds. People in the last two camps may oppose each other in claiming to be con servationists. Extremists are unlikely to find their opinions being reversed by this book but, because of the scope of the subject, I believe there is a good chance that anybody with an interest in wildlife will find in it something new to think about. It may not be too much to hope that a few disagreements might also be settled because I suspect there is more common ground than is generally realized among those with opposing views.
