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27.10.2008., ponedjeljak

The pattern

The pattern of response to the Regional Voluntary Programme in Table 6 indicates that, similar to the Mandatory Programme, the percentages of the respondents who would be willing to contribute decreases significantly as the bids get higher.

We also found no significant difference in the level of support for variations in the conservation programmes we offered. With the exception of Ho Chi Minh City/Hanoi, where results sest that respondents would be willing to pay significantly higher for the mandatory programme, respondents in Beijing, Davao City and Bangkok appear to be indifferent. Nor were there significant differences in the MWTP between international and national scale of efforts. Again, Ho Chi Minh City/Hanoi is the exception with where the MWTP for the conservation efforts is higher for the international scale conservation efforts.

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MWTP

One encouraging finding is that a significant percentage of respondents would voluntarily pay, regardless of whether or not other people paid. Moreover, while the estimated MWTP values presented earlier are indeed low and lower than WTP values in developed countries for endangered species, given the large income difference between the United States and the four countries surveyed, this difference in mean WTP was not unexpected. For example, the average U.S. citizen was willing to pay US$7.50/hh/month (Loomis, Gonzalez-Caban, and Gregory 1996) for the spotted owl and US$2.77/hh/month for the gray-blue whale (Bulte and Van Kooten 1999). But Gross National Income per capita for a U.S. citizen in 2005 was nearly sixteen times higher than that of Thailand.

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Our findings

Our findings show that, while respondents are familiar with marine turtles and believe them to be important, they are not concerned to a degree that would lead them to make personal trade-offs by making private contribution. Table 5 shows that only the lowest surcharge (US$0.02) would pass a referendum in all four countries. For Davao City, Bangkok, Hanoi, and Ho Chi Minh City, the referendum would also pass at the next lowest bid prices which were US$0.10, US$0.25, and US$0.50 respectively. The second lowest bid for Beijing was US$0.50 and only 48 per cent of the respondents voted to pass the referendum. At bids of US$1 and above, the referendum would not pass in any of the countries.

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Regional Mandatory Conservation Programme

For each city surveyed, we found that respondents were willing to make only small payments. In the Regional Mandatory Conservation Programme, the mean WTPs for Davao City were US$0.17/household/months and for Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi at US$0.83 per household per month. (4) MWTP for the two higher income cities were US$1.16 and US$1.41 per household per month for Beijing and Bangkok respectively. These values are comparable to the WTP values for other species from studies in Asia.

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The pattern

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