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WILD LIFE PROTECTION FUND 



It is now our painful duty to inform the world that the 

 European Bison is today extinct in a wild state. A trust- 

 worthy Russian authority states that 'There is no longer 

 any reason to hope or to believe that any wild bison of 

 Europe now remain alive. All were destroyed during and 

 immediately after the war." 



A very few individuals remain in captivity in England, 

 and two in Holland, but there are none whatever in 

 America. 



And thus, in spite of all our efforts in the conservation 

 of wild life, and the saving of species from extinction, the 

 most notable wild animal of Europe has gone down to 

 oblivion during the past eight years and practically before 

 our eyes! 



ASIA: David's Manchurian Deer. 



In 1900, during the Boxer rebellion in China, the Boxer 

 rebels killed the last remaining deer of the most interest- 

 ing deer species of China, knQwn as Pere David's Deer. 

 The home of the species was northern Manchuria, and 

 previous to 1900 the Chinese had killed all of them save 

 the 200 head that lived in an imperial park south of 

 Pekin. That remnant the Boxer soldiers killed for food. 



In Asia the species is totally extinct. In England, one 

 small herd still exists, at Woburn Park, in the possession 

 of the Duke of Bedford. 



NORTH AMERICA : The American Bison. 



Between the years 1870 and 1885, in the United States 

 and Canada the great crime of the American Bison was 

 perpetrated. 



Four million of those splendid and valuable animals 

 were wickedly and foolishly slaughtered, and not one- 

 fiftieth of their meat was saved. 



