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The Dawn of Conservation Diplomacy - U.S.-Canadian Wildlife Protection Treaties in the Progressive Era (Paperback)
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The Dawn of Conservation Diplomacy - U.S.-Canadian Wildlife Protection Treaties in the Progressive Era (Paperback)
Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
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In the first decades of the twentieth century, fish in the Great
Lakes and Puget Sound, seals in the North Pacific, and birds across
North America faced a common threat: over harvesting that
threatened extinction for many species. Progressive era
conservationists saw a need for government intervention to protect
threatened animals. And because so many species migrated across
international political boundaries, their protectors saw the
necessity of international conservation agreements. In The Dawn of
Conservation Diplomacy, Kurkpatrick Dorsey examines the first three
comprehensive wildlife conservation treaties in history, all
between the United States and Canada: the Inland Fisheries Treaty
of 1908, the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911, and the
Migratory Bird Treaty of 1916. In his highly readable text, Dorsey
argues that successful conservation treaties came only after
conservationists learned to marshal scientific evidence, public
sentiment, and economic incentives in their campaigns for
protective legislation. The first treaty, intended to rescue the
overfished boundary waters, failed to gain the necessary support
and never became law. Despite scientific evidence of the need for
conservation, politicians, and the general public were unable to
counter the vocal opposition of fishermen across the continent. A
few years later, conservationists successfully rallied popular
sympathy for fur seals threatened with slaughter and the North
Pacific Fur Seal Convention was adopted. By the time of the
Migratory Bird Treaty of 1916, the importance of aesthetic appeal
was clear: North American citizens were joining chapters of the
Audubon Society in efforts to protect beautiful songbirds.
Conservationists also presented economic evidence to support their
efforts as they argued that threatened bird species provided
invaluable service to farmers. Dorsey recounts the story of each of
these early treaties, examining the scientific research that
provided the basis for each effort, acknowledging the complexity of
the issues, and presenting the personalities behind the politics.
He argues that these decades-old treaties both directly affect us
today and offer lessons for future conservation efforts.
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