Tragedy of the Bunnies game

Go to: http://www.bunnygame.org/
Click on About the Game
1. What

are Common pool resources? (Give examples)

Oceans
Forests
Elephants

Click on Moral of the Story

2. Who wrote the article Tragedy of the Commons?

Garrett Hardin

3. Explain what the tragedy of the commons is.

It is a well-known phenomenon to environmentalist and economists, about
incentives and valuable resources.

4. Explain how Elephants are a good example of the Tragedy of the Commons.
Elephants are considered a renewable resource and the ivory deal got lots of
attention in the late 1980s. The IWC ended up getting elephant poaching
banned, despite the normal populations of the elephants. By increasing the
efforts in getting the ivory trade banned, the people were able to save
elephants before their population was majorly impacted and thus avoided a
tragedy of commons.

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5. What is CAMPFIRE?
Communal Areas Management Program for Indigenous Resources

Click on Instructions and read them

Click on Play the Game then click Play twice

6. How many bunnies did you (user) collect after the first round of the Public
Bunnies game?
16
7. How many bunnies did you (user) collect after the 2 nd round of the Public
Bunnies game?
0

Click on Play version 2

8. How is version 2 different?

Each owner now owns private bunnies, so it is possible to only take a certain
amount of bunnies without diminishing your whole supply for future bunnies
and without other owners taking your entire supply.

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9.
10.How many bunnies did you sell during the First round? Second round?
First- 5
Second- 15

11.Everybody seems to have a better chance of winning in the Private version

WHY?
The bunny population depleted before the bunnies had the chance to
reproduce in the public version, while players can conserve the bunnies in the
private game.