ABSTRACT
All over the world today, vast numbers of fine and harmless wild creatures are losing their lives or their homes as a result of thoughtless and needless destruction. In the name of advancing civilization they are being shot or trapped out of existence on land taken to be exploited, or drowned by new dams, poisoned by toxic chemicals, killed by poachers for gain, or destroyed in the course of political upheaval (Morges Manifesto, 1961). 1
