all of a sudden the wild life became an asset. they hired their own game wardens. wildlife had habitat doubled. because now it was a benefit. as a result the elephant population also doubled over 13 years. john: why you know about this? you are with property in environ research center. john: based in bozeman, montana. you folks city areas where private property can help protect animals. we believe that ownership provides the best incentives for conservation. john: most of the buffalo are owned by private ranchers, but there are still some in state parks or one state park. one has a roundup. and they are actually treating their bison most like private ranchers are, making them pay. what they do is once a year for 45 years they have this huge round with a bring in their 1500 bison. tourists come from all over the world among pay money to watch
these bison get heard it, and all wild west fashion with cowboys and cowgirls, and the bison come sweeping down the planes. the earth shakes. they did move in the corrals, and we all go eat bison murders after words. the point is, the park is making money from the tourism. then about a month later they auction off a portion to private ranchers and they re also making money now wait. all that money goes back into custer state park to pay for operations of the park. so they re paying their own way. john: more benefit from profit. coming of, how government made the indians poor and how private property made america rich. [ grunts softly ]
1,000 there were some cattle ranchers have roger been a real enough to figure out that the bison were worth more alive than dead at that point. so they went out to the great plains and gathered the remnants of what was left, 10-15 bison and grew them into the herds that today have made led to the comeback. john: they protected them for their own profit. they found a way to make them pay. the market, for them, was me. they sold bison to circuses, zoos, and public preserves. john: before that when there werr 30 million, at first there were not enough indians to kill them. they were doing okay. the white settlers could not really get to kill enough to endanger them. you had a commons without access. right after the civil war, of a sudden you could give hunters into the plains and you could get the bison back to the markets in the east and
overseas. that is when the real tragedy occurred. john: some people shut them from the transfer of sport. 110 waste. there were not even collecting the bison. just remember fun. the same concepts have been used to save elephants and zimbabwe. but essentially has been done is they provided an ownership interest of villagers, and that is helping to save them. prior to that you had to milan s . john: the government saying don t kill the elephants. don t kill the elephants. villagers are growing crops, but livestock, aquino land and the elephants were coming through in destroying those crops and other wildlife was running out there while stock. the villagers did not have any interest. villagers were allowed to start getting proceeds from trough the hunts and from safari tourism that came through.
110 waste. there were not even collecting the bison. just remember fun. the same concepts have been used to save elephants and zimbabwe. but essentially has been done is they provided an ownership interest of villagers, and that is helping to save them. prior to that you had to milan s . john: the government saying don t kill the elephants. don t kill the elephants. villagers are growing crops, but livestock, aquino land and the elephants were coming through in destroying those crops and other wildlife was running out there while stock. the villagers did not have any interest. villagers were allowed to start getting proceeds from trough the hunts and from safari tourism that came through. all of a sudden the wild life became an asset. they hired their own game wardens. wildlife had habitat doubled.