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IF a review is made of the steps which have been taken in the past to safeguard the fauna and flora of any particular country, it will generally be found that whatever has been done, or at any rate originated, in this direction has been almost entirely due to private enterprise or through the efforts of such scientific field societies as happened to be interested in some restricted portion, or individual members, of such faunas and floras. These societies, besides being very numerous, were necessarily of a very heterogeneous character, varying in that respect with the particular field of biological research in which they were more especially interested. They were generally handicapped by lack of funds, lack of public or private interest and consequently lack of means or opportunity for carrying out, on the necessary scale required, protective measures adequate for the schemes which they had in view. Each society, moreover, worked in its own limited field, usually without co-operation with other societies.
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Protection of the Fauna and Flora of Africa. Nature 142, 183–185 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142183a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/142183a0