Restlessness and discontent are the necessities of progress.
Thomas Alva Edison

Our Vanishing Wild Life Ebook

Our Vanishing Wild Life
Category: Animals
Ebook cover: Our Vanishing Wild Life

+$5

Title: Our Vanishing Wild Life
Author:
Description:

FOREWORD

The preservation of animal and plant life, and of the general beauty of Nature, is one of the foremost duties of the men and women of to-day. It is an imperative duty, because it must be performed at once, for otherwise it will be too late. Every possible means of preservation,-sentimental, educational and legislative,-must be employed.

The present warning issues with no uncertain sound, because this great battle for preservation and conservation cannot be won by gentle tones, nor by appeals to the aesthetic instincts of those who have no sense of beauty, or enjoyment of Nature. It is necessary to sound a loud alarm, to present the facts in very strong language, backed up by irrefutable statistics and by photographs which tell no lies, to establish the law and enforce it if needs be with a bludgeon.

This ebook is such an alarm call. Its forceful pages remind me of the sounding of the great bells in the watch-towers of the cities of the Middle Ages which called the citizens to arms to protect their homes, their liberties and their happiness. It is undeniable that the welfare and happiness of our own and of all future generations of Americans are at stake in this battle for the preservation of Nature against the selfishness, the ignorance, or the cruelty of her destroyers.

We no longer destroy great works of art. They are treasured, and regarded as of priceless value; but we have yet to attain the state of civilization where the destruction of a glorious work of Nature, whether it be a cliff, a forest, or a species of mammal or bird, is regarded with equal abhorrence. The whole earth is a poorer place to live in when a colony of exquisite egrets or birds of paradise is destroyed in order that the plumes may decorate the hat of some lady of fashion, and ultimately find their way into the rubbish heap. The people of all the New England States are poorer when the ignorant whites, foreigners, or negroes of our southern states destroy the robins and other song birds of the North for a mess of pottage.

Travels through Europe, as well as over a large part of the North American continent, have convinced me that nowhere is Nature being destroyed so rapidly as in the United States. Except within our conservation areas, an earthly paradise is being turned into an earthly hades; and it is not savages nor primitive men who are doing this, but men and women who boast of their civilization. Air and water are polluted, rivers and streams serve as sewers and dumping grounds, forests are swept away and fishes are driven from the streams. Many birds are becoming extinct, and certain mammals are on the verge of extermination. Vulgar advertisements hide the landscape, and in all that disfigures the wonderful heritage of the beauty of Nature to-day, we Americans are in the lead.
Fortunately the tide of destruction is ebbing, and the tide of conservation is coming in. Americans are practical. Like all other northern peoples, they love money and will sacrifice much for it, but they are also full of idealism, as well as of moral and spiritual energy. The influence of the splendid body of Americans and Canadians who have turned their best forces of mind and language into literature and into political power for the conservation movement, is becoming stronger every day. Yet we are far from the point where the momentum of conservation is strong enough to arrest and roll back the tide of destruction; and this is especially true with regard to our fast vanishing animal life.

The facts and figures set forth in this volume will astonish all those lovers of Nature and friends of the animal world who are living in a false or imaginary sense of security. The logic of these facts is inexorable. As regards our birds and mammals, the failures of supposed protection in America-under a system of free shooting-are so glaring that we are confident this exposure will lead to sweeping reforms. The author of this work is no amateur in the field of wild-life protection. His ideas concerning methods of reform are drawn from long and successful experience. The states which are still behind in this movement may well give serious heed to his summons, and pass the new laws that are so urgently demanded to save the vanishing remnant.

The New York Zoological Society, which is cooperating with many other organizations in this great movement, sends forth this work in the belief that there is no one who is more ardently devoted to the great cause or rendering more effective service in it than William T. Hornaday. We believe that this is a great ebook, destined to exert a world-wide influence, to be translated into other languages, and to arouse the defenders and lovers of our vanishing animal life before it is too late.
HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN, 10 December, 1912. President of the New York Zoological Society

Table Of Contents:

  • PART I. EXTERMINATION
  • CHAPTER I. THE FORMER ABUNDANCE OF WILD LIFE
  • CHAPTER II. EXTINCT SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS
  • CHAPTER III. THE NEXT CANDIDATES FOR OBLIVION
  • CHAPTER IV. EXTINCT AND NEARLY EXTINCT SPECIES OF MAMMALS
  • CHAPTER V. THE EXTERMINATION OF SPECIES, STATE BY STATE
  • CHAPTER VI. THE REGULAR ARMY OF DESTRUCTION
  • CHAPTER VII. THE GUERRILLAS OF DESTRUCTION
  • CHAPTER VIII. UNSEEN FOES OF WILD LIFE
  • CHAPTER IX. THE DESTRUCTION OF WILD LIFE BY DISEASES
  • CHAPTER X. DESTRUCTION OF WILD LIFE BY THE ELEMENTS
  • CHAPTER XI. SLAUGHTER OF SONG-BIRDS BY ITALIANS
  • CHAPTER XII. DESTRUCTION OF SONG BIRDS BY SOUTHERN NEGROES AND POOR WHITES
  • CHAPTER XIII. EXTERMINATION OF BIRDS FOR WOMEN'S HATS[D]
  • CHAPTER XIV. THE BIRD TRAGEDY ON LAYSAN ISLAND
  • CHAPTER XV. UNFAIR FIREARMS, AND SHOOTING ETHICS
  • CHAPTER XVI. THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF NORTH AMERICAN BIG GAME
  • CHAPTER XVII. PRESENT AND FUTURE OF NORTH AMERICAN BIG GAME
  • CHAPTER XVIII. THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF AFRICAN GAME
  • CHAPTER XIX. THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF THE GAME OF ASIA
  • CHAPTER XX. THE DESTRUCTION OF BIRDS IN THE FAR EAST[G] BY C. WILLIAM BEEBE Curator of Birds, New York Zoological Park
  • CHAPTER XXI. THE SAVAGE VIEW-POINT OF THE GUNNER
  • PART II.-PRESERVATION
  • CHAPTER XXII. OUR ANNUAL LOSSES BY INSECTS
  • CHAPTER XXIII. THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF BIRDS
  • CHAPTER XXIV. GAME AND AGRICULTURE; AND DEER AS A FOOD SUPPLY
  • CHAPTER XXV. LAW AND SENTIMENT AS FACTORS IN PRESERVATION
  • CHAPTER XXVI. THE ARMY OF THE DEFENSE
  • CHAPTER XXVII. HOW TO MAKE A NEW GAME LAW
  • CHAPTER XXVIII. NEW LAWS NEEDED: A ROLL-CALL OF THE STATES
  • CHAPTER XXIX. NEW LAWS NEEDED IN THE STATES (Continued)
  • CHAPTER XXX. NEW LAWS NEEDED IN THE STATES (Continued)
  • CHAPTER XXXI. NEW LAWS NEEDED IN THE STATES (Concluded)
  • CHAPTER XXXII. NEED FOR A FEDERAL MIGRATORY BIRD LAW, NO-SALE-OF-GAME LAW, AND OTHERS
  • CHAPTER XXXIII. BRINGING BACK THE VANISHED BIRDS AND GAME
  • CHAPTER XXXIV. INTRODUCED SPECIES THAT HAVE BEEN BENEFICIAL
  • CHAPTER XXXV. INTRODUCED SPECIES THAT HAVE BECOME PESTS
  • CHAPTER XXXVI. NATIONAL AND STATE GAME PRESERVES, AND BIRD REFUGES
  • CHAPTER XXXVII. GAME PRESERVES AND GAME LAWS IN CANADA
  • CHAPTER XXXVIII. PRIVATE GAME PRESERVES
  • CHAPTER XXXIX. BRITISH GAME PRESERVES IN AFRICA AND AUSTRALIA
  • CHAPTER XL. BREEDING GAME AND FUR IN CAPTIVITY
  • CHAPTER XLI. TEACHING WILD LIFE PROTECTION TO THE YOUNG
  • CHAPTER XLII. THE ETHICS OF SPORTSMANSHIP
  • CHAPTER XLIII. THE DUTY OF AMERICAN ZOOLOGISTS AND EDUCATORS TO AMERICAN WILD LIFE
  • CHAPTER XLIV. THE GREATEST NEEDS OF THE WILD-LIFE CAUSE AND THE DUTY OF THE HOUR

 

Ebook cover: Our Vanishing Wild Life
Add to Cart
Add to Wish List


Price: $3.00
Ebook Type: PDF
Rating:
Related Books:
Love and Happiness for Life and Interpreting Dreams
Author: Christina Sponias
Category: Psychology
Price: $54.00
Drawing Animals in Pencil
Category: Arts
Price: $16.00
I'm Rich Beyond My Wildest Dreams.
Author: Thomas Pauley, Penelope Pauley
Category: Business, E-Business, Spirituality
Price: $35.00
How To Be Wanted For a Lifetime of Nights and Not Just a Night of a Lifetime.
Author: Stanley J. Leffew
Category: Relationships
Price: $29.00
The Eco-Diet and Fitness Plan for Life
Author: Sean Kelly
Category: Diet, Fitness
Price: $8.99
My Goal! Achieve Your Life Goals
Author: James Pang
Category: Self Help, Spirituality
Price: $27.00
DARE To Change Your Job and Your Life
Author: Carole Kanchier
Category: Hobbies
Price: $19.95
Time For My Life
Category: Self Help
Price: $26.97


Site owner: Put the rating form on your site!
Listing wrong or need to be updated? Modify it.

Popular:

Top 20
New
Free

Category:


Action (38)
Adventure (101)
Affiliates (40)
Animals (99)
Arts (48)
Auto (31)
Aviation (3)
Beauty (56)
Body (83)
Business (320)
Cats (19)
Child Custody (11)
Children (151)
Christian Books (81)
Classic (166)
Computers (40)
Cooking (182)
Cover design (3)
Crafts (45)
Decorating (19)
Diet (109)
Dogs (75)
E-Business (521)
E-Marketing (408)
Education (118)
Entertainment (93)
Family (72)
Fantasy (53)
Fiction (122)
Finance (83)
Fish and Fishing (37)
Fitness (162)
Food (86)
For Authors (54)
Forex (12)
Gambling (9)
Games (33)
Garden (68)
Golf (29)
Green Products (29)
Health (467)
History (31)
Hobbies (71)
Holidays (37)
Home (123)
Home Business (118)
Horror (23)
Horse (21)
How To (137)
Humor (32)
Illustrated Picture Books (5)
Internet (117)
Investing (39)
Jobs (71)
Law and Legal (13)
Management (15)
Manuals (64)
Marketing (24)
Medicine (57)
Men (43)
Military (7)
Mind (73)
Music (53)
Mystery (43)
Nature (32)
Nonfiction (70)
Novels (32)
Parenting (56)
Philosophy (23)
Photography (21)
Poetry (25)
Programming (30)
Psychology (117)
Real Estate (36)
Relationships (236)
Religion (69)
Remedies (70)
Romance (66)
SEO and Promotion (60)
Science (17)
Science Fiction (27)
Self Defense (35)
Self Help (285)
Spirituality (66)
Sports (73)
Thrillers (40)
Travel (78)
Wedding (21)
Weight Loss (97)
Women (121)
Young Adult (32)

Hide Menu

Related E-Books

This ebook included to packages:
Animals Package!
26 Animals ebooks Click here to see the full list of these ebooks
(total value $170.50)
Buy Now

just for $26.95
$143
off
Silver Package!
Any 100 ebooks from 2000+ titles Click here to see the full list of these ebooks
Buy Now

just for $29.95
Gold Package!
Get full access to 2000+ ebooks Click here to see the full list of these ebooks
Buy Now

just for $49.95
Want to learn about new ebooks?Subscribe to our Newsletter:
Sign Up


eLibrary Awards:


Date: 3/5/2008
From: World Wide Web Awards™
E-Library has been selected to receive the World Wide Web Awards™ "Gold"Award.

The World Wide Web Gold Award represents web presence at its best.
Mistake found?

Select spelling error with your mouse and press Esc

HomeAdvanced searchTop RatedPopularNewFreeAdd Your EbookModify Your Listing

Authors ListFor AuthorsCover designPrivacy & Terms & CopyrightsResell RightsAffiliatesContact

Copyright © 2002 - 2024 eLibrary