AGAINST CRUEL BIRD-CAGING.
BRITAIN’S BUCKMASTER ACT.
Some people who are really kind-hearted keep birds in cages. Persons who would not knowingly commit the slightest act of cruelty keep singers as prisoners in cages hardly big enough to allow the captives to stretch their wings. It is a case of thoughtlessnesslack of imagination. No cruelty is intended, but it is there all the same. Whether cruelty is deliberate or unintentional, the bird’s suffering is the same. Happily, public opinion in Great Britain has been strongly developed on behalf of wild birds. Hence has come the Buckmaster Act, forbidding the caging of wild birds. Catching of wild birds has long been barred. The use of bird lime is also prohibited. The Buckmaster Act shows that New Zealand is lagging behind the Mother Country. At certain times of the year boys and men may be seen using bird-lime in and about many towns of the Dominion.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 32, 1 April 1934, Page 12
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153AGAINST CRUEL BIRD-CAGING. Forest and Bird, Issue 32, 1 April 1934, Page 12
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