Author : Arthur G. Sharp
Release : 2024-01-26
Genre : Nature
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The Hat That Killed a Billion Birds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hat That Killed a Billion Birds write by Arthur G. Sharp. This book was released on 2024-01-26. The Hat That Killed a Billion Birds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was common practice for milliners to decorate women's hats with birds' feathers and plumes--and sometimes with the birds themselves. As many as 300 million birds per year were killed for this fashionable enterprise, causing the extinction of some entire species and the endangerment of others. Lawmakers and bird aficionados were slow to react to the effects of this practice, which went on almost unabated for a quarter of a century. Then, noted naturalists like George Bird Grinnell, William T. Hornaday, and President Theodore Roosevelt, who recognized the economic benefits birds provided, banded together to pass meaningful legislation to protect them and to curb the production of murderous millinery. This book explores the troubled history of millinery and its complicated relationship to birds and conservation. It explores why it took so long for the slaughter to end and how the efforts of individuals and groups brought about change.