The speaker would prefer public laws in order to make efforts to preserve public owned wilderness as much as possible in their natural state.
I agree insofar as public laws would serve valuable purposes
for any nation.
At the same time, however, it is argued that some countries faced with a lack of budget for protecting wilderness.
Admittedly, I would like to point out that many of Third world countries have limited resources in order to spend in different issues of their countries.In other words, Inadequate resources call for restrictions, priorities, and choices. many Third world countries would prefer to invest in health and education than rather protecting wilderness.
As an example, Once the world’s sixth largest saltwater lake, Lake Urmia, lost in the desolate mountains of northwestern Iran, has begun shrinking.
As the lake has dried up and its shores have started to recede, the surrounding land has begun to die, causing an unprecedented ecological disaster.
Iranian governments allocated less than one present of the national budget to preserving wilderness in the year 2016.
It is said that Iranian government faced with the deficit and financial difficulties to protect Lake Urmia.This example shows that there is another side in terms of protecting wilderness.
However, lack of funding might justify an exception. public laws are still the best solution for this issue in most of the countries.
This is crystal clear that public law can possibly play an evenhanded role as wilderness patron.
Powerful public laws can prevent harmful activities, individuals, and businesses, to preserve wilderness.
In addition to this, these laws would open the new avenue in order to make wilderness area as a profitable source.
Take South Africa as an example, in 2003 South Africa introduced legislation for formal wilderness protection
previously legal wilderness protection was restricted to Forest Act -associated with the commercial forestry industry.
As result of this, the recent
Survey (published in the International Journal of Wilderness in 2014) revealed The number of tourist in the wilderness area of south Africa increased dramatically
.
These tourists who value wilderness may include not only a devoted trekker who spends weeks of the year in the backcountry, but also a city-dweller who visits a federal wilderness area in his lifetime for first time .Thus , this example shows that there is clear link between public law for protecting wilderness and economic benefit is clear.
In the final analysis, government can justify assisting wilderness area for the purpose of either promoting or preserving the national's wilderness area; nor for economic benefits of wilderness area. .