[gharial]

The mentality of people who support this kind of environmental destruction is baffling. "I have the right to a profitable business even if it means slaughtering an entire species to the point of extinction and ruining ecosystems nation-wide." Human arrogance at its finest.

[innguest]

Tragedy of the commons. That's why the solution is to privatize everything. You'd care about people killing your wolves.

[stolio]

There's also tragedy of the anticommons. Remember the Vogons from Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy?

Your solution to the wolf problem involves figuring out how to assign ownership to every molecule of air and every rock on the sea floor, the wolf problem is probably easier to solve.

[cgh]

That assumes the wolves would stay on your chunk of land. But of course they wouldn't as their range is typically much larger than any individual property. Privatisation ignores things like ecosystems.

[cafard]

What exactly would you do with the wolves you own?

[kansface]

Presumably collect payments from the people who kill them.