176 Nature protected 
ened extermination, giraffe, gorilla, 
chimpanzee, mountain zebra, wild 
asses, white tailed gnu, elands, and 
little Liberian hippopotamus ; and 
thirdly, the hunting and destruction of 
any other animals whose protection, 
whether owing to their usefulness or 
to their rarity, may be considered 
necessary by the local government is 
prohibited in the same way. More- 
over, reserves are to be established 
within which it is unlawful to hunt, 
capture, and kill any bird or other 
wild animal except those which are 
exempted from protection by the local 
authorities. 
The International Zoological Con- 
gress, held at Berlin in 1901, passed 
a resolution in favour of the protec- 
tion of all innocuous higher animals 
threatened by the progress of cultiva- 
tion. In the year 1905, the Inter- 
national Botanical Congress, held at 
