XXXI 

 The Preservation of African Game 



THE International Conference to which representatives 

 of all the Great Powers with interests in Africa 

 were invited for the discussion of the methods to be 

 adopted for preserving African game, resulted in a 

 number of regulations which are now being carried out 

 in modified and amended forms and according to local 

 conditions, in different parts of the continent. 



I must frankly state that personally I do not hold 

 altogether with the prevailing views as to " useful " and 

 " harmful" animals. It seems to me that we are far too 

 arbitrary in the way we deal with living creatures, 

 disturbing modes and methods of existence which are 

 the harmonious outcome of ages of evolution. We 

 consider ourselves entitled to proscribe all kinds of animals 

 as " harmful," thus annihilating whole sections of wild 

 life in a way which has aroused the strong opposition of 

 students and lovers of nature. 



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