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Protecting Birds From Extinction

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 27, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 38.

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Protecting Birds From Extinction

At present there is an international movement represented by fourteen world powers to prevent the destruction of birds for commercial purposes. An international committee has been appointed composed of a score of ornithological experts selected from the nobility of scientists. Owing to high prices offered for the plumes of white herons, birds of paradise, humming-birds, and similar species, these birds have been slaughtered almost to the point of extinction.