A Global Review of Incentive Payments for Sea Turtle Conservation
Published earlier this year, two economists published a paper in the BioOne Online Journal: The use of performance payments to achieve conservation outcomes is increasingly being used as an alternative to traditional regulatory and development-based approaches in low-income nations. Although payments are increasingly common in terrestrial species and ecosystem conservation initiatives, they are rare in marine conservation efforts such as sea turtle protection. This paper describes sea turtle incentive payment...