6 CONSERVATION OF CANADIAN WILD LIFE 
Certain of the foregoing animals extend their range south- 
ward into the United States, but Canada is their natural 
habitat and in Canada they attain their maximum devel- 
opment, apart from the fact that in the United States 
they have been seriously reduced in many instances. 
Our responsibilities in the matter of the conservation of 
these animals are therefore unmistakably clear. It is our 
bounden duty to prevent the extermination of all but the 
noxious species on the higher grounds of our obligations to 
the people of other countries, as guardians of our portion 
of the wild life of the world, and to future Canadians, the 
heirs of a region so richly endowed. 
