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 by William (William Charles Henry) Wood
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actually happen in my case. I certainly think that it would
be a grand thing to have certain groups of islands--or even certain sections of coast--set apart as bird sanctuaries. Your paper deals entirely with conditions in Labrador. There is, however, another part of the Gulf coast, where the need of protection is much greater than on the Labrador. That is the interior of the Gaspe peninsula. A certain region in the interior has been set aside as a park, but it is quite unprotected. Here, we have moose, woodland caribou and the red deer, besides nearly all the fur-bearing animals that we find on the Labrador. There is no game protection whatever. Moose and caribou are killed mostly out of season--when they are yarded, or when it is easy to run them down. In many cases the meat is left in the woods, the hide only being wanted. Lumbermen are penetrating up the rivers, further into the interior--every lumber camp is a centre from which the game laws are persistently violated.... the game, both fur and feather, (particularly the ruffled grouse) is rapidly disappearing before their pitiless onslaughts. Lumber camps are opened much earlier in the season than they used to be; so that the interior lakes and head waters of the rivers are being cleaned out of fish taken while in the act of spawning. All this may seem very strong language; but it is really not exaggerated. It may help to show the need of more and better conservation.... Mr. Alfred Russell Wallace, the founder and exponent of the science of zoo-geography, writes: |
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