1973 iucn yearbook

Mankind's self-respect and mankind's inheritance on this earth
will not be preserved by narrow or short-sighted means!
The signatories were:
Professor Jean G. Baer (Switzerland)
Dr. C. J. Bernard (Switzerland)
Professor François Bourlière (France)
Wolfgang Burhenne (Germany)
Dr. Eugen Gerstenmaier (Germany)
Charles van der Elst (Belgium)
Professor W. Goetel (Poland)
Dr. Edward H. Graham (USA)
Sir Julian Huxley, F.R.S. (UK)
Rocco Knobel (South Africa)
Dr. Kai Curry-Lindahl (Sweden)
E. M. Nicholson (UK)
Erico C. Nicola (Switzerland)
M. K. Shawki (Sudan)
Peter Scott (UK)
Dr. E. B. Worthington (UK)
On the 11th September 1961, the World Wildlife Fund was
legally constituted under Swiss Law at Zurich and finally registered
as a tax-exempt charitable foundation on 16 October 1961. At
this time a number of the promoters of the Fund met at Arusha
in Tanganyika, at the conference which constituted Stage II of
the African Special Project of the International Union for the
Conservation of Nature. They were gratified by the readiness of
leading Africans to give their support to conservation, and in
particular by the Arusha Declaration of Mr. Julius Nyerere, then
Prime Minister of Tanganyika - now President of Tanzania.
This reads:
The survival of our wildlife is a matter of grave concern to all
of us in Africa. These wild creatures amid the wild places they
inhabit are not only important as a source of wonder and inspiration
but are an integral part of our natural resources and of our
future livelihood and well-being.
In accepting the trusteeship of our wildlife we solemnly declare
that we will do everything in our power to make sure that our
children's grandchildren will be able to enjoy this rich and
precious inheritance.
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