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    The Game of Conservation: International Treaties to Protect the World’s Migratory Animals

    By Wilcomb E. Washburn

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    The Game of Conservation is a brilliantly crafted and highly readable examination of nature protection around the world.

    Twentieth-century nature conservation treaties often originated as attempts to regulate the pace of killing rather than as attempts to protect animal habitat. Some were prompted by major breakthroughs in firearm techniques, such as the invention of the elephant gun and grenade harpoons, but agricultural development was at least as important as hunting regulations in determining the fate of migratory species. The treaties had many defects, yet they also served the goal of conservation to good effect, often saving key species from complete extermination and sometimes keeping the population numbers at viable levels. It is because of these treaties that Africa is dotted with large national parks, that North America has an extensive network of bird refuges, and that there are any whales left in the oceans. All of these treaties are still in effect today, and all continue to influence nature-protection efforts around the globe.

    Drawing on a wide variety of primary and secondary sources, Mark Cioc shows that a handful of treaties—all designed to protect the world’s most commercially important migratory species—have largely shaped the contours of global nature conservation over the past century. The scope of the book ranges from the African savannahs and the skies of North America to the frigid waters of the Antarctic.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOhio University Press
    Release dateNov 15, 2009
    ISBN9780821443606
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      Marc Cioc looks at three international efforts in the early twentieth century to write treaties to protect wildlife. The efforts were in Africa to protect large mammals, North America to protect migratory birds, and a global effort to protect whales. It is certainly not surprising that narrow economic interests were the main impediments to meaningful agreements. What might surprise many is that the United States led treaty to protect migratory birds and that it was the most successful effort of the three that Cioc covers. The Game of Conservation is a useful primer on the complexities and difficulties of coming to terms with an international agreement on carbon emissions.