Save Jungle-land!

Although it is only a few years since Stanley's day, when Africa was Darkest Africa, the exploitation of the continent has proceeded so rapidly that the interested Powers are already face to face with the problem of protecting wild life. Air-travel has helped the present international movement towards a protective pact, for the air-traveller sees the huge African distances crumpling up before his eyes, he sees the animals of Africa and their unique wilderness beneath his feet (or rather his wings), and he realises that terra incognita of the Victorian explorers is now opened to all the world. A conference of Governments concerned in Africa, to be held in London at the end of October, has on its agenda paper such questions as sanctuaries, prohibition of hunting with motor cars and modern killing machines, and the elaboration of policy concerning native hunting.