Ecological Treatise for Hunters

This 18th-century German work examines the ecological benefits of animals, including those typically thought harmful to forests: mice, wolves, foxes, weasels, otters, deer, and over eighty species of birds, snakes, beetles and moths are considered. Bechstein, an early conservationist, acknowledges the rewards paid to hunters for pest extermination, but also appeals to reason by examining the creatures’ benefits, highlighting his view that all parts of nature are inextricably bound. The hand colored frontispiece highlights the beetles, moths and snakes. A folding table at the back of the book offers the hunter a ready reference sheet for those animals actually doing ecological damage.

Johann Matthäus Bechstein
Kurze Aber Gründliche Musterung Aller Bisher mit Recht oder Unrecht von dem Jäger als Schädlich Geachteten und Getödeten Thiere 
Gotha, C.W. Ettinger 1792

CO2 PPM in 1792: 280.6

Additional Information

Digitized copy available here: https://www.e-rara.ch/zuz/content/titleinfo/10507496.