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Demands for stronger protection for wildlife inBritain sometimes hide the fact that similar needs are felt in the rest ofEurope. Studies by theCouncil ofEurope, of which 21 countries are members, have shown that 45 percent of reptile species and 24 percent of butterflies are in danger of dying out.

European countries for wildlife was outlined byDr. PeterBaum, an expert in the environment and nature resources division of the council, when he spoke at a conference arranged by the administrators of aBritish national park. The park is one of the few areas inEurope to hold the council’s diploma for nature reserves of the highest quality, andDr.Baum had come to present it to the park once again. He was afraid that public opinion was turning against national parks, and that those set up in the 1960s and 1970s could not be set up today.ButDr.Baum clearly remained a strong supporter of the view that natural environments needed to be allowed to survive in peace in their own right.