Humane Economy is the application of a few practical and economic principles, like sustainability and cost effectiveness, to the issue of urban wildlife conflict. Often, the first human response to a wild animal in their home or yard is to kill or capture/transport the animal. Counterintuitively, this may actually exacerbate the problem. Dave will explore the concept that the best solution may be a totally different and more humane approach.

Dave Pauli is a technically trained agricultural economist (BS 1985 University of Wisconsin-Madison) who has worked in the animal/wildlife protection field for 36 years. He has owned a wildlife damage control business, been the director of two animal care and control agencies, and is a licensed or permitted Wildlife Rehabilitation specialist throughout his career. For the last 25 years, he has been a national and international field responder to large scale capture projects and disaster responses for The Humane Society of the United States and Human Society International. He has gained “lessons learned” from working on projects in all fifty states and in the Bahamas, Canada, Costa Rica, Guam, Haiti, Philippines, Russia, Saipan, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Trinidad, and the Turks & Caicos Islands.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx