Sustainable exploitation

• Sustainable exploitation:

  • often it is organisations that want to hunt and kill species. Their economic model may depend on it. Therefore they do not want the species to go extinct.
  • The organisation wants to conserve the species so they can exploit/kill it in the future

  Examples:

  • International Whaling Commission
  • Common Fisheries Policy of the EU
  • International Tropical Timber Organisation
• International Whaling Commission:

  • regulates and manages whaling
  • blubber of whales is used for oil in candles
  • Whaling is allowed for cultural reasons
  • The economic profits for whaling are short-term
  • Tourism around whales is way better economically
  • Whaling deters tourists

  Examples:

  • Blue whales population is declining rapidly due to improving technology
  • Japan
  • In 2019 Japan withdrew from IWC to resume whaling, like Iceland and Norway
  • It was breaking the IWC legally by saying they were killing whales for scientific research
  • It is not a very big part of their economy
• International Whaling Commission:

  • regulates and manages whaling
  • blubber of whales is used for oil in candles
  • Whaling is allowed for cultural reasons
  • The economic profits for whaling are short-term
  • Tourism around whales is way better economically
  • Whaling deters tourists

  Examples:

  • Blue whales population is declining rapidly due to improving technology
  • Japan
  • In 2019 Japan withdrew from IWC to resume whaling, like Iceland and Norway
  • It was breaking the IWC legally by saying they were killing whales for scientific research
  • It is not a very big part of their economy
• Common Fisheries Policy of the EU:

  • conserving fish in European water
  • aims to protect fish stocks, and ensure that fishing and aquaculture are environmentally, economically and socially sustainable and that they provide a source of healthy food for EU citizens
  • Economies are hugely reliant on fishing. If all fish are killed the fishing industry will collapse.

  Ways they do this:

  • catch quotas - limits on catchable size
  • net mesh size limits
  • limits on fishing efforts - time at sea, size of boats, types of nets
  • Ban on harmful practises - electric pulse fishing, driftnets
• International Tropical Timber Organisation:

  • they want to meet demand now and in the future
  • They aim to promote:
  • sustainable management and legal harvesting of tropical rainforests
  • Forest management: aim to stop illegal forestry, monitor forests ecosystem health, reforestation, selective logging to allow regrowth and remove invasive species
  • regulation of trade in tropical timber
  • development of sustainable exploitation
  • development of non-timber products