TRAFFIC IN WILD BIRDS.

Forest and Bird, Issue 31, 1 October 1933, Page 14

TRAFFIC IN WILD BIRDS.

The spring number of Bird Notes and News, the journal of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, tells of recent efforts in England to abate the extensive traffic in wild birds by the passage of a bill which was given consideration at the Society’s annual meeting in March, 1932. The bill in question was introduced in the House of Lords on February 7, 1933, by Lord Buckmaster, and a Second Reading was moved on February 14 by the introducer of the measure. The bill is not designed to cover birds already in captivity, or canaries' and foreign birds in general. “Its aim is to put an end to the exploitation of the country’s Wild Birds for profit and gain, by prohibiting the taking and possession of them for sale, exhibition/and barter.” It is stated that Lord Buckmaster ardently championed the measure, which he had introduced, in an eloquent and moving speech. In addition, the British press gave widespread support to the bill in many stirring editorial comments. It is our earnest hope that our British bird-protectionist friends may soon have the satisfaction of seeing the measure they are sponsoring enacted into —Bird Lore.