BIRD PRESERVATION
•■ —' — CONFERENCE AT GENEVA , SERIOUS RECOMMENDATIONS United Serrlce, ' (Received 25th May, noon.) GENEVA, 24th May. The International Bird Preservation Conference successfully concluded its sittings. The Conference protested against killing birds solely for their millinery value, and resolved recommending the complete cessation of bird hunting during the mating and rearing periods, and tho use of repeating shotguns and the shooting of wild fowl.ffom motor boats. ; , It also . strongly disapproved th« commerce in wild birds and egg shells, and recommended an international convention compelling the cessation of all shooting, trapping, and' other destruction of birds, and the sale or exposure' for sale'in countries of the Southern Hemisphere from Ist August until the autumn shooting season.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 122, 25 May 1928, Page 9
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114BIRD PRESERVATION Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 122, 25 May 1928, Page 9
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