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Zoological Peace Conference, at which the 

 nations who have made Africa their own 

 might sink their other differences and discuss 

 the best means of saving what is left. When 

 the earth was younger, forest, plain, and 

 mountain were a paradise of big game. It 

 would be futile to hope for the restoration 

 of such conditions ; it would, indeed, be im- 

 politic to attempt it ; and it might even be un- 

 desirable to realise it. Yet we should hesitate 

 before we recklessly throw away the little that 

 has escaped destruction. 



