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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.

This South American cactus moth is used to combat the spread of the prickly pear.

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

The career of the word “ecology” takes off. The term will increasingly be used to describe all aspects of interaction between living creatures and their environment.

The introduction of rabbits to Australia led to significant loss of other species.

Soon after the species arrive, their populations increase to plague proportions.

European settlers introduce European species of flora and fauna into Australia and New Zealand.