Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-03-02
NATIONS ASKED
TO SAVE BIRDS
WORLD POWERS MAY UNITE TO
STOP WORK BY MERcILEss
PoAcHERs.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON sUBJEcT-cRoPs AND
HEALTH OF HUMAN RACE
AT STAKE.


world powers to unite in checking the
commercial butchery that is known
to be rapidly exterminating the most
valuable bird species from the face
of the globe, a conservation move.
nlent of international scope was or.
sanized in this city today At the
fifth quinquennial convention of the
international pathological congress-
which will be held in Berlin May 80
an American representative from the
national association of Audubon so.
cjeties has been instructed to pre-.
sent for the consideration of the ma.
lions a plan for uniform protection
against the army of poachers that
scour the earth to supply it great
millinery markets with the piumage
of billions of birds. of whose natural
activities the human race must de-
pend for agricultural prosperity and
sanitary safety. To enlist Mexico in a
tripartite agreement with the
United States and Canada in the in
terest of the migratory birds of the
North American continent, a represen.
tative from this country is also pre-.
pairing to appear before the Mexican
congress.
Headed by the national association
OF fish and game commissioners, the
! North American fish and game pro-
tectlve association and the American
ornithologists' union. as we'll as the
national association of Audubon So
clet1es, this campaign of protest
against the rapid destruction of the
Ieathered resources of every land will
! De carried from this country to all
civilized nations. Testimony from
the foremost agricultural and hygien,
&c scientists showing the great part
j prayed by the insect eaters in check.
i ing crop pests and by the sea birds in
aVerting pestilence, is now beine
! prepared as proof of the immediate
need OF their international protection
! Until the authorities of every na.
5 ZION JOIN to check the illegal raids OF
the scouts for the millinery markets
VINO are securing the ends of the
earth more widely each wear INC
ornlthologists declare, no hope can be
neld out against quick and final ex
, tlhctlon OF the most useful bird sne
cles that inhabit every land.
Details of the recent raid of lamar
csc poachers upon the bird reserves
OF the United States about Hawaii
: nave lust been received here and will
oe lad before the coming information.
! d. conference with the growing 70
mana Tor reciprocal bird protection
among the nations. Ten tons Of the
Ieaehers OF valuable Pacific-Americar
species, with the skins and wings ri
over $4,000 birds, have been founf
% De some of the booty that the rev
enue cutter Thetis, brought back with
70 SUBJECTS of Japan who had beer
! ia1fded on American soil to put in 2
year at killing and mutiIating the
tame hocks On these remote islands
while the value of the bloody tropb
les to the wholesale millinery market
is estimated at some 100000, the bird
life that the Japanese DESTROYED in
taking them is calculated to be worth
to the people of this country at least
a million dollars.
As long as billions of the most
economically valuable birds of the
earth may be destroyed in some coun
tries and shipped to the millinery cen
tiers in others, it will be impossible
10 prevent their ultimate extinction.
said William butcher, president of the
national association of Audubon soci
cites at its headquarters, al Broad
| way. For instance, the bird of para.
dise-one of the most striking and
beautiful of Natures creations-is now
on the verge of extinction The sale
of its plumage can not be checked un-
til the nations cooperate to this end.
This trade in feathers is the chief
cause of the worlds alarming loss of
its bird resources, which are essential
to the health and prosperity of the hui
man race everywhere Migratory
birds know no geographical lines and
we do not believe their existen -
should be menaced any longer by the
lack of the uniform protective laws
we propose to advocate to the world
powers"