animal protection

The international, nonprofit organization works to protect ecologically important habitats.

The society is concerned with the conservation of American wilderness areas.

The Albert National Park (later renamed Virunga) in the Belgian Congo becomes the first National Park in Africa.

With the introduction of more powerful firearms, elephant hunting and the trade of ivory increase dramatically in the mid-nineteenth century.

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