. Two African trips, with notes and suggestions on big game preservation in Africa; . is to place a limit on the numbers of each species ofgame animal allowed to be killed under a licence, a highlimit being given for the common species, and a muchlower one for those in greater danger of rule is the very kernel of the question, provided onlyit is faithfully carried out, and not enacted merely forhome consumption. I fear it is not everywhere strictlyenforced, at least not equally against all sportsmen. In-fractions of it may be somewhat difficult to detect,but there is
. Two African trips, with notes and suggestions on big game preservation in Africa; . is to place a limit on the numbers of each species ofgame animal allowed to be killed under a licence, a highlimit being given for the common species, and a muchlower one for those in greater danger of rule is the very kernel of the question, provided onlyit is faithfully carried out, and not enacted merely forhome consumption. I fear it is not everywhere strictlyenforced, at least not equally against all sportsmen. In-fractions of it may be somewhat difficult to detect,but there is a further safeguard, which I am delighted toobserve now finds a place in every set of regulationsunder consideration. Every licencee is now required, atthe expiry of his licence, to furnish a return of what hehas killed. This is also of the highest importance, in myopinion, for the future of the preservation of the will impose a certain restraint on thoughtless sports-men, and, when the returns are collated, will form abasis for a valuable tabulation of the numbers of each. BIG GAME PRESERVATION 121 species killed from year to year, and serve as an indica-tion of the increase or diminution of any species in agiven area. It is obviously essential that this returnshould be required from all sportsmen, whether officialor not, as even one or two omissions would vitiate theaccuracy of the totals, and I would strongly urge uponthe authorities to enforce the rule without favour. Thishas not always been the case, even since this rule wasformally enacted. The legitimate sportsman has no reasonto fear it, and the mere butcher ought to be gibeted. I now proceed to consider, in some detail, the methodsby which the above recommendations have been carriedout in the regulations and restrictions which are in forcein the various British territories in Central Africa. The maintenance of reserves, or sanctuaries, is thefirst essential for the preservation of the various have the
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