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His long journeys abroad were very useful in assisting him to solve 

 the problem. He spent fifteen months in 1883-84 in Africa, Italy, 

 and the islands of the Mediterranean ; in 1886 he was nine months in 

 South America, in the virgin forests of Paraguay and Western Brazil. 

 He spent three months in 1888 in Italy, where he has since paid frequent 

 short visits in order to study the migration of birds, and the methods 

 of catching birds practised in that country. 



The result of all his studies and observations was the conclusion 

 that it is only by correcting Nature where man has marred her, by 

 restoring the balance which has been disturbed, that the protection 

 of birds can be properly dealt with, and that this can only be attained 

 through Nature herself, or through an exact imitation of Nature. 

 All so-called inventions for the protection of birds he considers absurd 

 from the very outset, and the chief cause of former failures. And 

 it is just because he always based his experiments upon Nature that 

 they were crowned with entire success. 



Baron von Berlepsch has, therefore, made it possible for us to carry 

 out the protection of birds on a basis which is rational, and entirely 

 in accordance with Nature. 



" Baron von Berlepsch is the right man to make bird-protection 

 popular, especially among gardeners and farmers, because, in 

 consequence of close observation of Nature, he is free from that 

 sentimentality which requires the most vital and important interests 

 to be sacrificed to a hobby. A thorough and rational protection of 

 birds is only possible wjiere the representatives of agriculture and 

 forestry join forces with those who are interested in birds from 

 aesthetic and ethical motives, and work together for a common good. 

 Unfortunately much energy was often wasted in angry quarrels." 

 Baseler Nachrichten, April, 1907. 



One advantage of bird-protection, according to Baron von Berlepsch's 

 methods, which must not be overlooked, is that it is thoroughly 

 adapted to modern civilization. It does not act as an obstacle, but 

 is of direct service to the progress of agriculture and forestry. This 

 explains why it has met with approval among those who objected to 

 former attempts. 



He is no mere theorist, for all that he has published on the subject 

 of bird-protection has been thoroughly tested by him for many years 



