A foundational understanding of animal property law. The nexus of animal rights and the rights of nature ; Biodiversity loss as a property law problem -- Revealing the existing body of animal property rights. The biological origins of property ; Uncovering animal rights in existing property law -- A roadmap for property ownership to benefit biodiversity ; Using legal trusts to implement a system of animal property rights ; Traditional legal pathways to formalizing animal property rights ; Leveraging property rights to aid biodiversity ; Case studies of stakeholder collaborations managing resource competition between humans and wildlife. Case study 1: Ranchers and wild horses in the West ; Case study 2: Outsourcing thick-billed parrot recovery to Mexico ; Case study 3: Traditional ecological knowledge and scientific management of caribou -- Analyzing the potential of animal property ownership ; Evaluating a property-based approach to biodiversity preservation ; The Implications for interspecies ownership on property theory -- Conclusion: Are animal property rights the rights of nature?
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