Should Wild Animals Have Rights to their Habitats?

What is it about?

The paper examines whether nonhuman animals ought to have a right their territory, held against humans. This right would grant them ownership over the natural goods produced by the territory and require humans to either keep out or to compensate them for extracting benefits from an area..

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Why is it important?

The greatest threat to nonhuman animals is usually habitat loss. Some species can only survive in very particular habitats. Existing habitat protection schemes have have limited success.