Environmental Conservation Movement In The Early 1900's

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Environmentalism is a vast ideology primarily concerned with the health of the environment and improving it using various methods. As the influence of industrialization and commerce as well as urbanization and the proliferation of cars began to take their toll on the environment, the native or aboriginal approach to the wildlife began to resonate with Canadians. The first conservation movements in the early 1900’s attempted to slow the depletion of Canada’s many resources for a more sustainable future from a treaty in 1916 protecting migratory birds establishing national or provincial parks that were protected and promoted by James

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