The Washington Post, June 20th, 1989
While damning efforts to ban the legal sale of elephant ivory as futile, Anthony Woodlief {letters, June 9} argues that the solution to protecting endangered species is to allow "individuals with an economic stake in their growth and preservation to own them." The idea that economic incentives can be applied as a cure-all for saving the African elephant illustrates the misguided reasoning that has led the animal to near extinction. Proponents of the economic privatization of wildlife overlook the fact that in Africa, elephants and other exotic animals already are accorded high economic value f...
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