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How much is an elephant worth?

Nature volume 382, page 594 (1996)Cite this article

The Value of Life: Biological Diversity and Human Society.

By Stephen R. Kellert. Island/Shearwater: 1996. Pp. 263. $24.95. The Sixth Extinction. By Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin. Doubleday/Weidenfeld and Nicolson: 1995. Pp. 271. $24.95, £18.99. Conservation and Biodiversity. By Andrew P. Dobson. W. H. Freeman/Scientific American Library: 1996. Pp. 264. $32.95, £19.95.

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Lovejoy, T. How much is an elephant worth?. Nature 382, 594 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1038/382594a0

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