When many animal species were in grave decline or on the verge of extinction due to unchecked overharvesting and negligent land use practises, the idea of wildlife and habitat conservation in North America emerged out of need. In order to combat the fast reduction of wildlife, early conservation pioneers like George Bird Grinnell and Theodore Roosevelt, who founded the Boone and Crockett Club in 1887, did not deliberately set out to construct this Model by name. What is now known as the North American Model is the outcome of their labour and that of many others. Due to his efforts to institutionalise and popularise conservation and to increase the protection, then management, of natural resources, President Theodore Roosevelt was one of the main figures in the conservation movement.
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