FOREST RANGERS.

Forest and Bird, Issue 24, 1 July 1931, Page 16

FOREST RANGERS.

—Newcastle Sun.

Every public schoolboy in New South Wales is virtually a forest ranger, and within an area of two miles adjoining every public school in New South Wales a sanctuary for native birds and animals. Prompted by the Australasian Society of Patriots, the State Government recently declared an area of two miles adjoining every school in New South Wales a sanctuary for native birds and animals. The declaration means that animals and birds, with the flora peculiar to Australia, must be protected within these areas.

STATE-WIDE SANCTUARY.

By declaring a two-mile sanctuary in the vicinity of every school, the Government, perhaps unwittingly, has made practically the whole of the populated portions of the State an area in which wild animals must be protected. In the coastal districts, particularly, where schools are encountered frequently, miles and miles of territory, without a break, automatically becomes a sanctuary. The Australian Society of Patriots is hopeful that native bears, kangaroos, .and other denizens of the Australian bush, will eventually come in closer to the schools in search of the food which the children are to be encouraged to provide. In this way first-hand natural history lessons will be obtained.