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PAST experience in America and South Africa shows how rapidly the teeming millions born of the soil may be shot out. Writers of half a century ago describe on the veldt in South Africa a paradise of varied life, which is now irretrievably lost, through the carelessness and wastefulness of white men. Some species have absolutely disappeared, never to be seen again on the face of the earth. Others are so scarce that it is doubtful whether their power of reproduction can save the race. The fact that an International Conference, attended by delegates from Germany, France, Italy, Portugal and the Congo Free State, on the subject of the preservation of the game from destruction in Africa, met recently in London, under the auspices of our Foreign Office, shows that a widespread interest is now taken in this subject. Let us see how the matter stood previous to the meeting of the Conference—at least as regards British territory.
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BUXTON, E. The Preservation of Big Game in Africa . Nature 62, 550–552 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/062550a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/062550a0