Fellow: Tom Graff Fellow, Gulf of Mexico Partnership for Shark Conservation

The Fellow will work with the Director of Strategic Conservation Initiatives and a team of EDF scientists, economists, and other professionals on a high-profile shark conservation project with trilateral implications (U.S., Mexico, and Cuba). The project contemplates both, biological and socioeconomic objectives that will become important components of a rights based management solution capable of stopping the decline of sharks in the Gulf of Mexico by producing economic benefits from conservation, and improving ecosystems and livelihoods in the three countries involved.

The fellow will have the unique opportunity of shaping important decisions for our project through contributions addressing the theoretical and practical implications of rights based management models for wildlife. In particular, she/he will build on the lessons of rights based management models used for elephants and rhinos in Africa, and will also examine other types of strategies and models used for the conservation of marine mammals, and whales in particular. She/he will evaluate the incentives for conservation produced by other existing conservation models, as well as their potential for shark conservation. The fellow will also analyze international institutions aimed at preserving highly migratory species, and assess their effectiveness in light of catch and mortality behavior.

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