34 ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETID 
A PAIR OF NYALAS 
SOUTH 
FOR 
VANISHING 
AFRICAN 
PROTECTION 
GAME AND ITS NEED 
By A. K. Haaenrr, F. Z. S., Erc. 
Director, National Zoological Gardens of South Africa, Pretoria; President, Transvaal 
Game Protection Association. 
HEN in New York, in 1920, I was re- 
quested to write a short sketch of the 
more interesting and scarcer forms of 
game animals found in South Africa, with par- 
ticular reference to their status at the present 
time. I do this with all the more pleasure see- 
ing that the request has come from a man who 
has courageously and consistently fought for 
the preservation of game animals on sane and 
common-sense lines. 
In South Africa our difficulties appear to be 
worse than those obtaining in the United 
States. They have at times appeared to me 
to be so insurmountable that I have often 
thought seriously of “throwing up the sponge” 
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and acknowledging myself beaten, but my 
American friends have been so emphatic in 
their encouragement that I have been led to 
continue my efforts. There is, however, one 
big and fundamental difference between the two 
countries. America seems to get money to- 
gether for any serious project in hand, whereas 
we in South Africa have to go down on bended 
knees to raise a few pounds for any scientific 
or non-utilitarian matter. 
The Transvaal Game Protection Association 
is only a small society boasting but few mem- 
bers, and its funds are very meagre, but the 
Central Executive Committee contains, never- 
theless, some very enthusiastic gentlemen who 
