BETWEEN ECOLOGY AND ECONOMY: HOW TO PROFIT FROM WILD ANIMALS WITHOUT EXPLOITING THEM

The wild animal trade is a large-scale and profitable business. We understand that it business generates economic income, people actually profit from it. However, comes with many negative implications, starting the practice itself, which deemed unethical harmful to welfare. Excessive leads biodiversity loss, nature imbalance, even spreading of infectious diseases. It begs question: profiting animals worth all implications ecology? What if there were other ways generate income without physically exploiting them? This paper tries answer question. Utilizing literature review exploratory descriptive methods done by researching similar issues, such as tree cutting for timber, causes deforestation. And how can earn money preserving trees rather than them down, through carbon offset mechanism. results showed possible capturing selling them. suggested we develop means ethical tourism. Instead animals, are experience finding watching doing their natural activities in national parks. more numbers preserved habitat, abundant they appealing tourist destination. In way, profits could potentially be higher effective individual animals.