Pest Control and Wild Animal Life

This paper attempts to locate changing interspecies relations in the dynamism and violence of capitalist expansion on a world scale, setting out two primary ways that the rising exploitation of non-human animals contributed to the development of settler-colonial economies, destabilization of indigenous societies, and transformation of ecosystems. One path was set by burgeoning demand essentially turning some wild animal species into increasingly valuable commodities and driving the rising scale and systematization of extraction and trade, which tended to quickly undermine conditions of abundance and make these animal frontiers very mobile. The second way started from the introduction of domesticated animals, with the muscle power and bodily commodities derived from proliferating populations valued not only in the expansion of agricultural landscapes but also in the formation and functioning of other resource frontiers, and ultimately bound up in waves of enclosures and expulsions. This framework seeks to simultaneously pose challenges for historical analysis and provide insights that help to understand the trajectory of animal life today.

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Big game hunting in Africa and other lands; the appearance, habits, traits of character and every detail of wild animal life ... by Prof. Axel Lundeberg and Frederick Seamour [!] ...

10.5962/bhl.title.25594 ◽

1910 ◽

Author(s):

Axel. Lundeberg ◽

Frederick H. A. Seymour

Keyword(s):

Wild Animal ◽

Animal Life ◽

Game Hunting ◽

Big Game Hunting

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Uganda

Oryx ◽

10.1017/s003060530003708x ◽

1954 ◽

Vol 2 (6) ◽

pp. 366-374

Author(s):

J. Tokwara

Keyword(s):

National Parks ◽

Wild Animal ◽

Animal Life ◽

Important Work ◽

The Public ◽

Considerable Research ◽

Wild Vegetation ◽

Set Up

In a foreword to the report Mr. R. Dreschfield, the Chairman, writes: “There has been steady and thorough work in the field of game preservation. The wardens have got to know their areas, have set up ranger posts, have practically stopped poaching, and have carried on considerable research into the game. This is our most important work and the work to which we, as trustees, are by law committed. The long title to the Ordinance which is the fount of our existence reads: ‘An Ordinance to provide for the Establishment of National Parks for the purpose of preserving Wild Animal Life, Wild Vegetation, and providing for other matters incidental thereto.’ Necessary, therefore, as it is to provide transport, accommodation, and observation facilities within the parks, we and the public must remember that these activities are only incidental to our main purpose.

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The Kruger—An Outsider's Point of View

Oryx ◽

10.1017/s0030605300035845 ◽

1951 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 104-107

Keyword(s):

National Parks ◽

General Public ◽

National Park ◽

Wild Animal ◽

Point Of View ◽

Animal Life ◽

Wild Vegetation ◽

Work Done ◽

London Conference ◽

Wild Life

The inspiration of most recent thought upon National Parks springs from the work done in 1933 at the London Conference for the Protection of African Fauna and Flora. The definition there adopted for the term “National Park” was, shortly, that it should mean an area placed under public control and set aside for the protection of wild animal life and wild vegetation, for the benefit and enjoyment of the general public. From this definition, already shortened, it is important to extract the object for which a National Park is formed and for which it is maintained. This object is the protection of wild life. It is not the enjoyment of the general public, for that is a different thing altogether, a result following the attainment of the object.

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