Categories : Environment International Human rights. Navigation menu Personal tools Log in. Namespaces Page Discussion. Views Read View source View history. Stone, led to the Alaskan Game Act of Eminent biologist William Beebe embarked upon a massive survey of Asian pheasants in , covering 50, miles during his studies. Closer to home, the Bronx Zoo became an important center for animal preservation and study.
It was the first zoo to hire a full-time veterinarian and would establish the first modern animal hospital in In addition, William Hornaday led the Society to help open three bison reserves in the Midwest, beginning with the Wichita Mountains Forest Reserve in Oklahoma, which was started in with 15 bison supplied by the Bronx Zoo.
In , the Society published Hornaday's Our Vanishing Wildlife, a book that would profoundly influence public policy in the United States, helping establish legislation to spare migratory birds from hunting.
Moreover, the Society helped form the Save-the-Redwoods League in to protect that species in California. Aiming to inspire an appreciation of ecological diversity through observation of wildlife in captivity, the Society founded the first formal zoo education program in Moreover, its commitment to conservation escalated as it fought to save the white rhinoceros from government-sponsored slaughter in South Africa.
The New York Aquarium and Bronx Zoo proved popular diversions during the Great Depression, allowing the Society to continue to fund field studies and to enhance its facilities.
At this time, the Society received new leadership. Fairfield Osborn and Laurance S. Rockefeller, named Society president and board chairman, respectively, in , would oversee a long period of growth. Under Osborn and Rockefeller, the Society broadened the scope of its mission, building on Hornaday's concern for animal species by emphasizing global responsibility for the environment as well. The zoo's next projects focused on the creation of natural environment exhibits.
An innovative, open habitat known as African Plains was installed at the Bronx Zoo in , a savanna environment recreated for zebras, antelopes, and other grazing animals and birds, with lions kept apart on an island on the other side of a moat.
His research on wild pheasants took him to Asia from to and resulted in a series of books. Beebe's fieldwork also resulted in the creation of WCS's Department of Tropical Research, which he began directing in , leading ecological expeditions across tropical regions.
Beebe's research in an undersea vessel called the bathysphere took him a record-setting half a mile under the ocean off Bermuda in to record for the first time human observations of the deep sea. The bathysphere is currently displayed at the New York Aquarium. After World War II, under the leadership of Fairfield Osborn, one of the foremost conservationists of the era, the organization expanded its programs in field biology and conservation.
In it sponsored George Schaller's seminal study of mountain gorillas in Congo. Since that expedition, Schaller has gone on to become the world's preeminent field biologist, studying wildlife throughout Africa, Asia, and South America. And the AEC uses its voting power to keep in place prohibitions on ivory sales and all other trade in elephant-related derivatives, including skins and hair, which Southern African nations wish to legalise.
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