BIRD-SLAUGHTER.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 69, 22 March 1928, Page 11

BIRD-SLAUGHTER.

INTERNATIONAL CONTROL.

CFrom Our Special Correspondent.)

LONDON, February 1

An international conference representing seven European countries which sat in London last year, with Lord Ullswater (the ex-Speaker) in the cliair, to consider the protection of migratory wild fowl, has recommended ccrtaii> preservative measures. Among them are the following:— February 1 to be the latest date for the beginning of the close season. Sale of birds during close season should lie prohibited or regulated. Complete protection for all swans. In the pursuit of wild fowl the use of mechanically-propelled boats, artificial lights, and certain forms of nets should be prohibited. Special methods at lighthouses to protect birds. Establishment of bird sanctuaries. This conference hoped that the interaits of wild fowl would not be overlooked in any final agreements on the question of the pollution of the seas by discharge of oil from vessels.

The type of birds the conference had in mind were swans, geese, ducks, lapwings, plovers, woodcock, snipe and their allies. There has been a general diminution in their number in Europe, and the conference urges that it is imperative that steos should be taken to arrest lh<> diminution.