VOLUME 87

The Right to Decide (7-minute Video)

Patrol Reports

28 Oct 2026 — 1 min read

In most community wildlife conservation projects, the money arrives, goes to a committee, and most of it never reaches the households, and it is the most common way these projects fall apart.

Wildlife economist Professor Brian Child has built a model to prevent this. With his model, the order is inverted.

The dividend from the wildlife goes straight to each household, not to a committee. Then households decide how much to keep, how much to put back in, and for what.

Wildlife management and the game scouts. Projects like a school, a clinic, solar power. The systems to run it all.

The money reaches the individual first. The community is funded out of what its own people choose to return. The right to decide sits at the bottom, not the top.

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