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Is Viagra a viable conservation tool? Response to Hoover, 2003

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2004

WILLIAM VON HIPPEL  and
FRANK A. VON HIPPEL
WILLIAM VON HIPPEL
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia
FRANK A. VON HIPPEL
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alaska Anchorage, 3211 Providence Drive, Anchorage, AK 99508-4614, USA
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In 1998, we (von Hippel & von Hippel 1998) suggested that the advent of Viagra might take some of the market pressure off a variety of threatened species used to treat erectile dysfunction (ED) in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). In 2002, we (von Hippel & von Hippel 2002) followed up this initial suggestion by providing a more complete analysis of the species that might benefit if TCM consumers switched to Viagra, and we also provided preliminary evidence that the harvest of a few species used in TCM may have already declined due to the availability of Viagra.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , March 2004 , pp. 4 - 6
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© 2004 Foundation for Environmental Conservation

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