ISIL Freedom Network: Global > Introductions and FAQs > Private Conservation

Save Elephants - Buy Ivory
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute
Author: Michael De Alessi
City: Washington, State: DC, Country: United States

"Private conservators saved the South African bontebuck, the American bison, and countless other species that were wiped out on public lands, but dearly protected on private ones."

Enviro-Capitalists
Source: PERC
Country: United States

A very short introduction to private conservation. "Where government bureaucracy has created roadblocks, individual entrepreneurs have generated innovative approaches to environmental problems. PERC calls these entrepreneurs 'enviro-capitalists'."

Free-Market Principles Benefit Timber Conservation
Source: NCPA / Investor's Business Daily
Country: United States

From an IBD editorial. Advocates letting conservation groups bid for "use rights" to U.S. Forest Service lands - just like the timber industry.

How Free Markets Protect the Environment
Source: Heartland Institute
Author: Richard Stroup, Ph.D., and Jane Shaw
Country: United States

"Free markets often do a better job of protecting the environment than government does."

Noah Was No Bureaucrat
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute
Author: Marlo Lewis
Country: United States

Bruce Babbitt should not take the name of the first private conservationist in vain.

Private Protection
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute / Center for Private Conservation
Author: Robert J. Smith
Country: United States

Excerpt from a longer essay originally published by Cato. Preserving natural resources and wildlife would be aided by adopting a system of private property rights for them.

The Tragedy of the Commons Revisited: Politics vs. Private Property
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute / Center for Private Conservation
Author: Randy T. Simmons, Fred L. Smith, Jr., and Paul Georgia
Country: United States

Executive summary of a longer essay available for order in print from CEI. Examines the pros and cons of different systems of resource management and determines that a property rights based approach works best.

A whale of a tale: the promise of private conservation for whales
Source: Center for Private Conservation
Author: Michael De Alessi and Robert J. Smith
Country: United States
E-mail: mdealessi@privateconservation.org

"Allowing whales to be owned by individuals, groups or communities -- especially traditional coastal fishing and whaling villages -- would be the surest way to ensure their continued survival. Such small villages along the Japanese coast have sustainably harvested small cetaceans for centuries with cultural traditions and enlightened self-interest preventing over-harvest." (08/02/01)

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