Jay N "Ding" Darling
A. Jay Norwood Darling was a Pulitzer Prize winning American cartoonist, who was known for his political and conservation cartoons. He was also a very important figure in the conservation movement.B.
•He was appointed by President Roosevelt as the First Head of US Biological Survey which was the forerunner of the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
•He founded the National Wildlife Federation in 1936, which is now the largest non-profit conservation organization in the U.S.
•He used satire to promote the issues of conservation which brought national attention to environmental concerns.
• Conceived the idea for the Federal Duck Stamp Program and drew the first stamp design( these stamps helped raise money for buying wildlife habitats)
•Darling increased the enforcement of game laws that restrict hunting of animals that are becoming extinct. In 1937 he helped pass a law putting a tax on guns and ammunition, and the money from these taxes went to wildlife conservation.
C. Jay Darling fits in the Environmental Science aspect of environment and society. Darling helped pass various laws and regulations that facilitated the conservation of numerous forms of wildlife, especially birds.
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