![]() When we try to decide which view to accept, the credibility of the witness is of the first importance. On the other hand, the insect-control specialists tend to deny that such losses have occurred, or that they are of any importance if they have. On the one hand, conservationists and many wildlife biologists assert that the losses have been severe, and in some cases catastrophic. Opinions on the effect of this spraying differ. Now to these, and others like them, we are adding a new chapter-the killing of birds, mammals, fishes, and, indeed, every form of wildlife by chemical insecticides indiscriminately sprayed on the land. ![]() The history of recent centuries has its black passages-the slaughter of the buffalo on the Western plains, the massacre of the shore birds by the market gunners, the near extermination of the egrets for their plumage. As man proceeds toward his announced goal of the conquest of nature, he is writing a depressing record of destruction-destruction of the earth he inhabits and destruction of the life that shares it with him.
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