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Before Marlin Perkins, many people and organizations worked to protect the habitats of animals. In the early 1900s, R.W.G Hingston wrote, “African fauna is steadily failing before the forces of destruction brought to bear against it" because of four main reasons: human cultivation, animal trade, hunting, and the tsetse fly (Cioc 47-8). He concluded that human life and animal life needed to be separated (48). In 1936, the General Wildlife Federation formed to “make effective progress in restoring and conserving the vanishing wildlife resources of a continent” (“75 years of Conservation”). Politically, President Roosevelt created laws establishing the National Parks and wildlife refuges in the United States ("Conservation Timeline"). |