Tax Electricity To Save Sea Turtles

After surveying 3,680 respondents across the region, the study shows that people are willing to pay only $0.02 to save marine turtles, even though they believe conservation is important. In addition, they believe they are already too highly taxed and do not believe that the taxes will be effectively collected or used. "We therefore tried to assess people's willingness to pay for conservation through an alternative payment vehicle like a surcharge attached to household electricity bills," said Orapan. The study suggested that if people could pay $1 per household per month, it would raise between $50 million and $135 million per year in the four countries and would be enough to create sustainable activities to save the sea turtle in the region...