Dr. Benny Peiser 30.01.2012 13:11 +Feedback
Want to Save Endangered Species? Hunt Them
On tonight’s show, “60 Minutes” profiled private big-game game hunting in Texas, which has become a $1 billion industry and is credited with saving some exotic species that are now extinct in their native lands in Africa. It’s a great example of how private property rights and profit-based game hunting give the animals a positive economic value and create strong economic incentives to increase the herds in far greater numbers than if we were to rely on pure altruism. The big-game hunters have become the true “conservationists,” and the animal rights activist are not happy about that. More here
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