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Chapter 12: Q.31 (page 297)

Consider two ways of protecting elephants from poachers in African countries. In one approach, the government sets up enormous national parks that have sufficient habitat for elephants to thrive and forbids all local people to enter the parks or to injure either the elephants or their habitat in any way. In a second approach, the government sets up the national parks and designates 10villages around the edges of the park as official tourist centers that become places where tourists can stay and bases for guided tours inside the national park. Consider the different incentives of local villagers - who often are very poor - in each of these plans. Which plan seems more likely to help the elephant population?

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Second plan will help the elephant population because it benefits the villages also.

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Introduction

Policies that set pollution emission limitations and make it essential to use specified pollution management strategies are known as command and control policies.

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Explanation

Second option are going to be the most effective plan as villagers provide protection to animals and reciprocally they get opportunity to earn from tourist who come there. This plan also helps to boost the quality of living of villagers living round the park. the primary plan wasn't offering such incentives though the regulations were passed to shield the elephants. which might also work better for elephants but those who are around won't get benefitted out of it.

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