Author:  William Wood

Release Date:  February 21, 2005 [EBook #15134]

Language:  English

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     Commission of Conservation
     Canada

     Supplement to

     Animal sanctuaries
     in
     Labrador

     Supplement to
     an address presented
     by
     Lt.-Colonel William Wood, F.R.S.C. 
     Before the Second Annual Meeting of the
     Commission of Conservation in
     January, 1911

     Ottawa, June 1912

     Animal Sanctuaries
     in
     Labrador

Supplement to an address by Lt.-Colonel William Wood Ottawa, Canada 1912

SUPPLEMENT TO AN ADDRESS ON Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador

BY

Lieut.-Colonel William Wood, F.R.S.C.

The appeal prefixed to the original Address in 1911 announced the issue of the present supplement in 1912, and asked experts and other leaders of public opinion to set the subject on firm foundations by contributing advice and criticism.

The response was most gratifying.  The twelve hundred review copies sent out to the Canadian press, and the hundreds more sent out to general and specialist periodicals in every part of the English-speaking world, all met with a sympathetic welcome, and were often given long and careful notices.  Many scientific journals, like the Bulletin of the Zoological Society of America, sporting magazines, like the Canadian Rod and Gun, and zoophil organs, like the English Animals’ Guardian, examined the Address thoroughly from their respective standpoints.  The Empire Review has already reprinted it verbatim in London, and an association of outing men are now preparing to do the same in New York.

But though the press has been of the greatest service in the matter of publicity the principal additions to a knowledge of the question have come from individuals.  Naturalists, sportsmen and leaders in public life have all helped both by advice and encouragement.  Quotations from a number of letters are published at the end of this supplement.  The most remarkable characteristic of all this private correspondence and public notice, as well as the spoken opinions of many experts, is their perfect agreement on the cardinal point that we are wantonly living like spendthrifts on the capital of our wild life, and that the general argument of the Address is, therefore, incontrovertibly true.