PROTECTING FLORA AND FAUNA

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20989, 18 October 1933, Page 9

PROTECTING FLORA AND FAUNA

AFRICAN CONVENTION I PLANNED (Received October 17, 7.10 p.m.) RUGBY, October 10. The protection of African fauna and flora by means of a revised international convention will be the chief purpose of a conference wlr'ch will meet in London on October 31, and at which the Governments of Great Britain, Abyssinia, Belgium, Egypt, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan will be represented. The Governments of India, the United States, and the Netherlands have nominated observers.

The chief British delegate, Lord Onslow, will preside, and the other ) British delegates will be Sir William Cowers, senior Crown Agent for the Colonies, Sir Arnold Hodson, Governor of Sierra Leone, and Mr A. B. Acheson, of the Colonial Office. A draft convention for use as a basis of discussion has been circulated to other governments by the United Kingdom Government. It contains suggestions for an agreed declaration of principle on the establishment of national sanctuaries in which wild animals and plants may be preserved with auo regard to interests of the native inhabitants of the various territories concerned. It also proposes measures to restrict the falling of some of the rnrer species of African animals, j It also deals with various objectionable methods of hunting, and other practices which have a de- ! structive effect upon wild life, and j is designed to secure co-operation i between the various administra- ! tions. |