birds

Peru nationalizes its guano reserves, beginning a period historians refer to as “the guano age.”

Publication of Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring, a catalyst for environmental consciousness in the US and worldwide.

United States and Great Britain (on behalf of Canada) sign the Convention for the Protection of Migratory Birds in 1916.

This state organization is founded to manage the conservation of New Zealand’s natural heritage.

Publication of the first sections of John James Audubon’s Birds of America.