BIRD LIFE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 23 June 1924, Page 9

BIRD LIFE.

UNIQUE SCHEME ' FOR PROTECTION. By Calile —Press Association—Copyright, Received 5.5 p.m., June 22. NEW YORK, June 21. The Association ot Audubon Societies, the pioneer in the protection of bird life, announces the receipt ot an unusual gift of 2«,000 acres of iand in Louisiana, as a memorial to the late Paul Rainy, a noted explorer and naturalist, by his sister, Mrs Grace Rogers, who has also provided a large endowment to keep the land perpetually planted with cereals, sufficient to feed a hundred millions of wild ducks every winter. The territory will be carefully guarded against hunters, in order that it may become truly a wild life sanctuary. The announcement states that a continuance of wild fowl, must depend largely upon cultivated sanctuaries. The reclamation of *7 million acres of swamp land, for the purposes of agriculture, has appallingly restricted the areas upon which wild ducks feed. The present plans call for the planting of eight different kinds of cereals, to afford the ducks a varied diet. Once attracted hither, the ducks will never be frightened by the sound of a gun, and under such conditions they will grow tamer than domestic pigeons.