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Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation

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Aimed at sounding an urgent alarm about widespread wildlife loss, the author documents the rapid decline and near-extermination of many regional birds, mammals, and fishes, blaming unregulated shooting, commercial plume and fur trades, habitat destruction, and inadequate laws. He supports these claims with statistics, case studies, maps, and photographs that highlight failures of existing protections and the influence of hunting interests on legislation. The work combines vivid accounts of depletion with practical prescriptions—stronger statutes, reserves and wardens, enforcement, and public education—framed as civic duties to preserve remaining wild life for future generations.


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