Note: This article is from Conservation Magazine, the precursor to Anthropocene Magazine. The full 14-year Conservation Magazine archive is now available here.

Good for the Economy, Good for Us?

July 29, 2008

Conservation spending is tethered to the U.S. economy — for better or worse.

Click charts and graphs above to see an enlargement

What to Read Next

Paying people a guaranteed income could protect biodiversity. For a very high price.

New research suggests that a conservation basic income could be fair and effective. It could also cost as much as $6 trillion per year.

Warren Cornwall

Wild horse numbers are out of control. The remedy hinges on whether they are wildlife, pets or livestock.

The lack of sound science isn’t what’s keeping land management agencies from effectively dealing with the horse conundrum. It’s the politics.

Warren Cornwall

How trees become elders in a human-dominated world

A team of researchers combed through a database of 1.8 million century-old trees in China to solve an Anthropocene puzzle

Sarah DeWeerdt

Welcome to the Anthropocene

Success!

Forward Thinkers Wanted

Success!

Good for the Economy, Good for Us?

Paying people a guaranteed income could protect biodiversity. For a very high price.

Wild horse numbers are out of control. The remedy hinges on whether they are wildlife, pets or livestock.

How trees become elders in a human-dominated world

Forward Thinkers Wanted

Success!