I've been thinking about this recently.
I still have trouble with the concepts of use and exchange value so this might be a silly question, but humour me (someone had to ask, right?)
Edit: I wrote a follow up to this here
I've been thinking about this recently.
I still have trouble with the concepts of use and exchange value so this might be a silly question, but humour me (someone had to ask, right?)
Edit: I wrote a follow up to this here
It doesn't make sense to attribute use value to things that are not commodities.
Certainly, it could be transformed into a commodity, if the reserve were gated off, and then tickets were sold for people to enter it.
At which point its use value would be the answer to the question, "Why are people buying tickets to enter this wildlife reserve?"
Ah, but has not wildlife become a commodity under capitalism?
Not by default, no. Not until a logging company or some land developer or something starts to transform it into a commodity.