A WILD DUCK SANCTUARY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19205, 23 June 1924, Page 7

A WILD DUCK SANCTUARY

GUT OF 26,000 ACRES. AMERICAN WOMAN’S INTEREST IN BIRD LIFE. Press Association—By Telegraph —Copyright. NEW YORK, June 21. (Received June 22, at 5.5 p.m.) The Association of Audubon Societies, the pioneer body in the protection of bird life, announces the receipt of an unusual gift in the form of 26,000 arces of land in Louisiana as a memorial to the late Paul Rainy, a noted explorer and naturalist. The gift was made by his sister, Mrs Grace Rogers, who also provided a large endowment to keep the land perpetually planted with cereals, sufficient to feed hundreds of thousands of wild ducks every winter. The territory will be carefully guarded against hunters in order that it may become truly a sanctuary for wild life. The announcement states that the continued abundance of wild fowl must depend largely upon cultivated sanctuaries The reclamation of 77,000 acres of swamp land ’ for the purposes of agriculture has appallingly restricted the areas upon which wild ducks feed. The present plans provide for the planting of eight different kinds of cereals to afford the ducks a varied diet. Once they are attracted hither the ducks will never be frightened by the sound of a gun, and under such conditions they will grow tamer then domestic pigeons.—A. and N.Z. Cable