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NOTICE FOR AMERICAN YACHT CLUBS 
The American Committee for International Wild 
Life Protection wishes to call your attention to recent 
mandates of the Government of Ecuador concerning 
hunting and collecting on the Galapagos Islands. 
This decree sets aside various islands as National 
11 Parks and Nature Reserves and forbids visitors to 
^ destroy or carry away in a living state the peculiar and 
interesting mammals, birds, and reptiles of the Archi- 
pelago. 
Excerpts from the Official Ecuadorian Register of 
August 31, 1934, and the Supreme Mandate of Alay, 
1936, define the intention of the Ecuadorian Govern- 
ment to protect the unique fauna of these islands, made 
famous since the time of Darwin on his Beagle Voyage. 
Depredations by thoughtless persons, some of them 
yachtsmen, have made this action necessary. The 
U. S. Tariff Act of 1930 (Section 527 a) reinforced by 
customs order T.D. 48173, of February 20th, 1936, 
makes it mandatory to confiscate at our borders all 
examples of Galapagos fauna, alive or dead, that are 
taken contrary to Ecuadorian Law. 
More detailed information can be supplied by the 
American Committee for International Wild" Life 
Protection, Cambridge, Mass. 
August 2, 1937. 
J. C. Phillips, 
Chairman. 
