From Market Hunting to Hunting Markets: A Property Rights Approach

Hunters are proud of the role they play in wildlife conservation. In North America hunters hang their conservation hats on the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation (NAMWC), measuring their successes on the recovery of wildlife populations decimated in the 19th century... By contrast, what I call the African Model of Wildlife Conservation (AMWC) went through a different evolution and resulted in a wildlife conservation system based more explicitly on property rights and more conducive to privatization and marketization of animals and habitat... 

The purpose of this paper is to explore the origin of two very different conservation models; to debunk the myth that the NAMWC is based on the public trust doctrine; to show how animals and habitat are inputs into the production of the hunting experience; to emphasize that confusing market hunting with hunting markets and thus concluding that the hunting experience should not be privatized or monetized breaks the value chain necessary for wildlife conservation in conjunction with private lands.