Preservation of the Wild 



* * * That regulations for the preservation of 

 wild animals have been in force for some time in 

 the several African Protectorates administered by 

 >^he Foreign Office as well as in the Sudan. The 

 obligations imposed by the recent London Con- 

 vention upon the signatory Powers will not become 

 operative until after the exchange of ratifications, 

 which has not yet taken pla-ce. In anticipation, how- 

 ever, steps have been taken to revise the existing 

 regulations in the British Protectorates so as to bring 

 them into strict harmony with the terms of the con- 

 vention. The game reserves now existing in the 

 several Protectorates are: In (a) British Central 

 Africa, the elephant marsh reserve and the Shirwa 

 reserve; in (b) the East Africa Protectorate, the 

 Kenia District; in (c) Uganda, the Sugota game 

 reserve in the northeast of the Protectorate; in (d) 

 Somaliland, a large district defined by an elaborate 

 boundary line described in the regulations. The 

 regulations have the force of law in the Protectorates, 

 and offenders are dealt with in the Protectorate 

 Courts. It is in contemplation to charge special 

 officers of the Administrations with the duty of watch- 

 ing over the proper observance of the regulations. 

 Under the East African game regulations only the 

 officers permanently stationed at or near the Kenia 

 reserve may be specially authorized to kill game in 

 the reserve. 



Other effective measures have been taken in the 

 Soudan district. Capt. Stanley Flower, Director 



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