Our Vanishing Wildlife: Its Extermination and Preservation
Hornaday WT. 1913. Our Vanishing Wildlife: Its Extermination and Preservation. Scribner & Sons. New York
We are weary of witnessing the greed, selfishness and cruelty of "civilized" man toward the wild creatures of the earth. We are sick of tales of slaughter and pictures of carnage. It is time for a sweeping Reformation; and that is precisely what we now demand. 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 book is such an alarm call.
- Type
- Book
- Authors
- Hornaday, William
- Date of Issue
- 1913
- Publisher
- Scribner & Sons
- Units
- HIST
- Keywords
- classic publication, Conservation, extermination, Extinction, Fish, game, Hunting, Introduced Species, Preservation, song-birds, Species, Wildlife