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WILD LIFE PROTECTION FUND 



road to Oblivion. Nothing but quick, energetic and drastic 

 action can or will save them to the fauna of their native 

 land. 



If they are permitted to go into the discard, the people 

 of South Africa never will regret it but once, and that 

 will be — forever! Once those species are lost they NEVER 

 can be brought back. If you want another Manchuria, a 

 lifeless and uninteresting waste, then let things go as 

 they are going, and soon you will attain it. 



No wild animal life ever was too abundant to be ex- 

 terminated by man. Remember the fate of the American 

 Bison and Passenger Pigeon in America and the Quagga 

 and Rlaubok in South Africa. Give your children and 

 grandchildren a chance to see some African animals 

 someivhere else than in museums! A few more years of 

 Roan and Sable Antelope shooting may make a fatal dif- 

 ference in the permanent preservation of those species. 



The only right course to pursue is to absolutely pro- 

 hibit all shooting of all species that are threatened with 

 extermination. Meanwhile, the situation must be studied, 

 and measures devised and enacted into law to permit the 

 shooting of male animals where the game is sufficiently 

 abundant to endure it without decrease, and to protect 

 all other animals in other areas. 



When game is rapidly nearing extinction, mild and 

 gentle measures of protection are utterly useless. More 

 than this, they are worse than useless; because they de- 

 ceive good citizens into thinking that the game is being 

 saved when it is not! 



Weak and half-way measures are worse than none. 



If the majority of the people of South Africa mean to 

 exterminate all their game, let them go to it with their 

 eyes open. The confirmed butcher is willing to exter- 

 minate any species for the profit of the day and hour. 



