. Review of reviews and world's work. Courtesy of the University of Chicago Press. THE SOURCE OF THE JORDAN AT BANIAS. LEADING ARTICLES OF THE MONTH. 733 AFRICA AS A GAME-PRESERVE. IN the National Geographic Magazine for No-vember, Mr. John B. Torbert writes brieflyon Africa, the Largest Garae-Preserve in theWorld, It will be news to many of our read-ers, perhaps, that on May 19 of the present yeara convention was signed in London by the diplo-matic representatives of Great Britain, Germany,Spain, Belgium, France, Italy, and Portugalfor the protection of the wild animals, birds, andfishes of A
. Review of reviews and world's work. Courtesy of the University of Chicago Press. THE SOURCE OF THE JORDAN AT BANIAS. LEADING ARTICLES OF THE MONTH. 733 AFRICA AS A GAME-PRESERVE. IN the National Geographic Magazine for No-vember, Mr. John B. Torbert writes brieflyon Africa, the Largest Garae-Preserve in theWorld, It will be news to many of our read-ers, perhaps, that on May 19 of the present yeara convention was signed in London by the diplo-matic representatives of Great Britain, Germany,Spain, Belgium, France, Italy, and Portugalfor the protection of the wild animals, birds, andfishes of Africa, This convention, after ratifica-tion by the several powers, is to remain in forcefifteen years. The European nations havingcolonial possessions in Africa have thus formed T ^OportmTg^lVspaW Madi. 0 IV 20 so >? jO JO GO THE AFRICAN GAME-PRESERVE AS FIXED BY TREATY, (The shaded portion of the map shows the area over whichthe provisions of the convention of May 19 apply.) themselves, as Mr. Torbert puts it, into a power-ful game-protective association, with jurisdictionover the most extensive game-preserve in theworld. HOW THE ANIMALS ARE PROTECTED. The area over which the provisions of theconvention are to apply includes all that portionof tlie Dark Continent extending from thetwentieth parallel of north latitude to the southernline of the German possessions in southwesternAfrica, and from the Atlantic Ocean to the In-dian Ocean and the Red Sea. Under the termsof the convention, the hunting and destructionof vultures, secretary-birds, owls, giraffes, go-rillas, chimpanzees, mountain zebras, wild asses, white-tailed gnus, elands, and the little Liberianhippopotamus is prohibited. The young of cer-tain animals, including the elephant, rhinoceros,hippopotamus, zebra, antelope,
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