Show ANIMALS BECOMING EXTINCT in africa elephants and Giraffe ts are no B conlinn exterminated an article by mr bryden in the last proceedings of the british zoological society says the days of the giraffe are ara numbered A few years ago herds of seventy or eighty of them were nvere often met in various parts of africa bryden says that nineteen gi giraffes are now a large lierd herd they have been hunted so BO mercilessly both by natives and foreign sportsmen that they are rapidly becom ing extinct the intelligent 0 african kin khama has hab however taken the giraffe under liis his protection and hopes to save it from extermination ile he has forbidden the hunting of the giraffo giraffe in ins his large domain and in this way ho he hopes they will multiply in his country it is an interesting fact that russia has preserved the tur european bison from extinction by setting apart a forest in lithuania for them and permitting no one to molest them recent explorers in in southwest africa say that the f fauna auna has changed greatly during the last thirty or forty years dr henry glenry schlichter in a paper ile he lead before the british a association a few weeks acro ago 0 says antelopes lions buff buffaloes aloes rhinoceros gir giraffes aries and other large animals which were met with in abunda abundance when the country was first explored are no longer to b be found in any part of southwest africa on account of their ceaseless slaughter by el european european hunters as well as by the natives since the latter have possessed broccli breech loading guns the most important among these animals the elephant has wholly disappeared from this part of africa except in the neighborhood of lake agami And andirson ersoll one of the early carly explorers of this region said that tn twelve clec hundred pounds 1 of ivory could be bought 0 at lake agami for a musket according to livingstone ing stone in three years not less than nine hundred elephants were killed near the little river alone ilow how much their number has diminished is shown by the present very small ivory export from bay which amounts to about fifteen hundred pounds per annum while in 1875 it was as high as thirty seven thousand pounds the various kinds of animals would doubtless increase again 0 if some protective measures were taken in their behalf but there are not matly khalas among the important men of africa who have foresight to endeavor in the interests of their own people to prevent t the he extermination of these valuable animals |