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THE Universities' Federation for Animal Welfare (temporary address, 284 Regent's Park Road, London, N.3) has issued a circular directing attention to the need for co-ordinating the diverse and often conflicting interests concerned with the regulation of wild life, both fauna and flora, in Great Britain. It is suggested that a central “Wild Life Authority” should be set up by statute and charged with the duty cf studying and directing all measures necessary for the control of injurious, and the conservation of desirable, species. Except that the Federation is specially concerned to urge the adoption of humane methods in the destruction of animal pests, its aims seem to differ little from those of several other existing organizations, such as those concerned with national parks, nature reserves, and the like. Further discussion will doubtless emphasize the importance of co-operation rather than competition in this, as in so many other schemes for post-war progress.
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Conservation of Wild Life in Great Britain. Nature 152, 443–444 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152443d0
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