The International Wildlife Conference, held at Arusha in Tanganyika from 5th to 12th September, 1961, has been justly described as the most important gathering of conservationists and ecologists ever held in Africa. Members of the Fauna Preservation Society can take satisfaction from the fact that their Society contributed a very great deal to its success. The Society made a very substantial grant towards the cost of African Special Project, Stage 1, the survey which preceded the conference, and also provided funds to enable twelve Africans to attend the conference and one of the post-conference tours. Furthermore, the Society was well represented at all the sessions of the conference by members of a delegation led by its President, the Marquess of Willingdon. What characterized the Arusha discussions as a whole was a sense of unity of purpose in the common effort to conserve the wildlife of Africa. On some points of detail there was conflict of opinion vigorously expressed. The merits and dangers of the regular cropping or harvesting of wild animals was a notable example. Conference was divided between the advantages in theory and the snags in practice, especially the snag of setting up adequate marketing facilities, but on this debatable point, as in others, it was significant that everyone was united in the importance of game management, an expression in common use throughout the week.

By translocation is meant the transfer of wild animals from one area to another. The term may be used in the positive sense of introducing animals into an area, for instance to enhance the value of a reserve by re-introducing species that have been exterminated there, or in the negative sense of removing them from conflict with human interests as an alternative to their destruction.

The most exciting news that ever reached my ears came when the president of our Young Farmers' Club announced that the national organizer had invited two boys from the Club to visit Kafue National Park. I was even more excited when I knew that I was one of the two. It took what seemed to me five years, but was actually five weeks, for the day of departure to come.

The evacuation of Tristan da Cunha following the volcanic eruption of 9th October, 1961, has again raised the question of safeguarding one of the richest reservoirs of oceanic wildlife left in the world.

Both the black stork (Ciconia nigra) and the white stork (Ciconia ciconia) are found in Portugal. The black stork is much the rarer and more local, being found in steep, hot places in the eastern and north-eastern provinces.