Protection of Nature in Switzerland 

 and the Swiss National Park. 



C. Sohroter, Dr and Professor of botany at the Federal 

 Technical Highschool in Zurich, writes on this subject: 



A powerful movement seems of late to be stirring in 

 every country. Men have come to the conclusion that 

 It is high time to put a stop to the destroying work 

 of the all-levelling culture, before the original face of 

 mother Earth has become entirely unrecognizable. 



Save, what can still be saved; create a refuge for 

 animals and plants ! This is the cry all over the world. 



The problems to be resolved for this protection of 

 nature are the following : 



1. Preservation of interesting- geological formations on 

 the surface of the earth (erratic blocks, moraine 

 districts, round protuberances, caves, rare minerals 

 and stones, petrifactions). 



2. Protection of our mountains, lakes, waterfalls against 

 disfigurement, by too extensive or inconsiderate pro- 

 jected technical plans (orological and hydrological 

 protection of nature). 



3. Preservation of the vegetable kingdom: measures 

 against the threatening impoverishment of the whole 

 wild flora, but especially of the Alpine flora, by 

 wholesale gathering or digging up, protection of rare 

 plants, remarkable trees, whole primitive families of 

 plants that are threatened with disappearance by 

 culture (moors, heather, steppes, primeval forests). 



4. Preservation of the wild animal kingdom by pro- 

 tective regulations, and by preserving, or creating 

 again, favorable conditions of life. 



5. Creating large continuous districts of refuge (reser- 

 vations, national parks, preserves for animals and 

 plants), where every possible encroachment of man 

 is out of the question; these are the most effective 

 and lasting measures for the preservation of primi- 

 tive nature. 



The following organs in this noble undertaking in 

 Switzerland are: The Bird protection and ornithological 

 Society, the Forest Society, the liga for home protection, 

 the Swiss commission for the protection of nature, and 

 the confederation for protection of nature. Everyone ha- 

 ving a heart for such ideal efforts should enter the 



