The AFIP and the Tragedy of the Commons

摘要

In 1944, the US Coast Guard placed 29 reindeer on St. Matthew Island, a small island in the Bering Sea. With no predators on the island, the reindeer population had grown to 6,000 by 1963. During the winter of 1963 to 1964, all but 42 of the animals died of starvation.