AND OTHER BIRDS '^ 



Flora and Fauna is jeopardised or injured or 

 destroyed, then there is loss to each of the 

 parties concerned, and the management of the 

 whole business must be termed a Ijungle. 



Stewart Island, the ishmds and islets of our 

 long coast line, and esj^ecially the far southern 

 groups, are ideal sanctuaries for the preservation 

 of threatened or i-are species. For this purpose 

 the}^ could not be bettered. As pastoral tracts 

 they are a curse to theii' holders. AVe are 

 attempting, in fact, to use these islands for pur- 

 poses for which they are wholly unsuitable. 

 Suggestions, however, concerning areas so large^ 

 so far apart from one another, and each more- 

 over with its own problems and perplexities, can 

 only be of value if drawn from local knowledge 

 and experience. Such knowledge and experience 

 the writer cannot pretend to possess, but, in 

 truth, the matter is not one to be dealt with by 

 an individual. It is only the consensus of 

 opinion of a Society, yet lacking in New Zealand 

 — a Society for the Protection of Native Birds 

 and Native Plants in such parts of the 

 Dominion as are otherwise worthless — that can 

 carry weight. 



