HUNTING EXAMS

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32539, 24 February 1971, Page 5

HUNTING EXAMS

Suggestion by Duke (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) NEW YORK, Feb. 22. The Duke of Edinburgh, a hunter and conservationist, yesterday called for written examinations for game hunters seeking licences as a step in ecological reform. Prince Philip said that once sportsmen were more informed and interested in their field, “it seems only natural” they should be interested in “everything, else that surrounds it—the whole eco-

logy.” In an interview published in the March issue of “Sports Afield” magazine, the Prince said it would take “time and money and persuasion” to defuse the “ecological time bomb that we are all sitting on.” •

Proposing hunting examinations, he said: “People who go out to fish or hunt should have a much better understanding of the natural history and the life cycles of their game. “It’s no good just going bang at something that flies,” he said.

“You’ve got to know what you’re doing.” Depletion of fish in international waters, he said, was “one of the great weaknesses at the moment of the whole conservation system—the real Achilles heel.” He suggested formulating international fishing laws.