{"id":2001,"date":"2011-12-04T08:54:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T13:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2011\/how-much-is-a-polar-bear-worth-to-you\/"},"modified":"2011-12-04T08:54:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-04T13:54:38","slug":"how-much-is-a-polar-bear-worth-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2011\/how-much-is-a-polar-bear-worth-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much is a Polar Bear Worth to You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/120411_1354_HowMuchisaP1.png\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>How much would you be willing to pay to protect Polar Bears? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/article\/1091367--what-s-a-polar-bear-worth-to-you?bn=1\"><em>The Star<\/em><\/a><em><br \/>\n\t\t<\/em>reports that a study commissioned by Environment Canada concluded that Canadians would be willing to pay $6.3 billion per year to keep the polar bears alive. Some interesting points include:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$6.3 billion comes out to about $508 per Canadian Household.\n<\/li>\n<li>$6.3 billion also means that each of the 15,000 polar bears is worth $420,000 \u2013 the average price of a house in Toronto.\n<\/li>\n<li>This study of Canadian preferences cost $41,300 to carry out.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To find out how the Polar Bear compares to the amount that Canadians would be willing to pay to save other animals such as whales read the full article over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/article\/1091367--what-s-a-polar-bear-worth-to-you?bn=1\">here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/article\/1091367--what-s-a-polar-bear-worth-to-you?bn=1\"><em>The Star<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much would you be willing to pay to protect Polar Bears? The Star reports that a study commissioned by Environment Canada concluded that Canadians would be willing to pay $6.3 billion per year to keep the polar bears alive. Some interesting points include: $6.3 billion comes out to about $508 per Canadian Household. $6.3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}