@wordstitcher@thecanadian.social @TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.world @ZenHeathen@beige.party @AnnieBuddy@thecanadian.social A problem with markets for wildlife is that Indigenous people have had markets for wildlife products forever, but the colonists and their guns wiped out the game the first people relied on for food and markets. Then the Canadian and US govts implemented the North American Model of Wildlife Consevation to save and restore the lead-eradicated wildlife populations, and one of the tenets is no markets for wildlife (which was a keystone of the recovery of lost wildlife). The loss of many furbearer populations then birds was to supply European markets, and Indigenous trappers and hunters were part of that market. So some Indigenous nations and the non-Indigenous hunter-outfitters want wildlife markets but both previously contributed to the market-driven depletions of wildlife (rarity boosts prices).