Editing Environmental movement (section)

==== Germany ====
{{See also|Animal welfare in Nazi Germany}}
During the 1930s the Nazis had elements that were supportive of animal rights, zoos and wildlife,<ref name="BHTFSN153">{{cite book |author=Thomas R. DeGregori |title=Bountiful Harvest: Technology, Food Safety, and the Environment |title-link=Bountiful Harvest |publisher=Cato Institute |year=2002 |isbn=978-1-930865-31-0 |page=153}}</ref> and took several measures to ensure their protection.<ref name="HMG278">{{cite book |author=Martin Kitchen |url=https://archive.org/details/historymodernger00kitc |title=A History of Modern Germany, 1800-2000 |publisher=Blackwell Publishing |year=2006 |isbn=978-1-4051-0040-3 |page=[https://archive.org/details/historymodernger00kitc/page/n295 278] |url-access=registration}}</ref> In 1933 the government created a stringent animal-protection law and in 1934, {{Lang|de|Das Reichsjagdgesetz}} (The Reich Hunting Law) was enacted which limited hunting.<ref>Hartmut M. Hanauske-Abel, ''[http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/313/7070/1453#R101 Not a slippery slope or sudden subversion: German medicine and National Socialism in 1933]'', BMJ 1996; pp. 1453–1463 (7 December)</ref><ref name="www_kaltio_fi5">{{cite web |title=kaltio.fi |url=http://www.kaltio.fi/index.php?494 |access-date=15 August 2007}}</ref> [[Environmentalism in Nazi Germany|Several Nazis were environmentalists]] (notably [[Rudolf Hess]]), and species protection and [[animal welfare]] were significant issues in the regime.<ref name="HMG278" /> In 1935, the regime enacted the "Reich Nature Protection Act" (''{{Lang|de|Reichsnaturschutzgesetz}}''). The concept of the ''{{Lang|de|Dauerwald}}'' (best translated as the "perpetual forest") which included concepts such as [[forest management]] and protection was promoted and efforts were also made to curb [[air pollution]].<ref>[http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/technology_and_culture/v048/48.1olsen.html Jonathan Olsen "How Green Were the Nazis? Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich (review)"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304120440/http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=%2Fjournals%2Ftechnology_and_culture%2Fv048%2F48.1olsen.html|date=4 March 2016}} Technology and Culture – Volume 48, Number 1, January 2007, pp. 207–08</ref>