@article{Tisdell:145107,
      recid = {145107},
      author = {Tisdell, Clement A. and Xiang, Zhu},
      title = {Protected Areas, Agricultural Pests and economic Damage: A  Study of Elephants and other Pests from Xishuangbanna State  Nature Reserve},
      address = {1995-05},
      number = {1740-2016-140471},
      series = {Biodiversity Conservation: Studies in its Economics and  Management, Mainly in Yunnan, China},
      pages = {14},
      year = {1995},
      abstract = {Protected areas are often the source of agricultural pests  and .Xishuangbanna State Nature Reserve in Yunnan is no  exception. The main pest associated with the. Reserve is  the Asian elephant, Elaphas maximus, which causes damage  outside the Reserve to agriculture as well as in the  Reserve. However, these elephants are also an important  attraction to tourists visiting Xishuangbanna.  Xishuangbanna Prefecture contains the only remaining wild  elephants in China. The present economic value of tourism  within the Reserve seems to be much less than the economic  d mage caused by elephants and other species protected by  it. So the economic value of protecting these species must  depend on other factors or future economic  prospects.
Methods of controlling pests from the Reserve  are discussed as also is the scheme for compensating  agriculturalists for damages caused by its pests. The  problem of achieving an equitable solution to the pest  problem is given considerable attention. The economics of  reconciling the conflicting interests of those who either  regard a species as a pest or as an asset is considered.  The appendix introduces a simple model for optimally  controlling the population of a species (variously regarded  as a pest and as an asset) from an economic viewpoint.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/145107},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.145107},
}