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Hokitika Guardian, 23 January 1935, Page 4

R KlMtl'.R KNTATI'V KS of provincial Rovernmonts in Imlia will assemble at Simla at the and (if this month, at the invitation of the Central Rovernment, to confer on Urn problem of the preservation of wild life in India. A report on the subject has been prewired following an international conference some time ago. It is considered that methods of preserving wild life ill Africa have little application to India. Africa lias enormous spaces where a, scanty population has no such grim competition for existence •as is common in so densely peopled a sub-continent as India. The menace to its wild life, too, comes as much from foreign expeditions and organised but indiscriminate shikari as from indigenous needs or '•enterprise. India’s corresponding necessity, on the

other hand, is means for the preservation of human life by trade, loot! and resistance to the ravages of wild animals, which destroy crops where they do not cat human beings. It is difficult enough to teach elementary care and consideration for the bullocks. cows. buffaloes, donkey s and burses that give their owners various essential services. It would be no easier to persuade any considerable proportion of 330,0H0,DU0 people that, at certain tinic s of the year or within certain areas and limitations, tlie marauding tiger, bear or panther, the edible flesh of bird and beast, or the marketable bide of a crocodile is better alive than dead and must be kept alive deliberately.