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Victor Stolan (born 1893) provided "the germ of the idea"〔Sir Arthur Norman (1981) The story of the World Wildlife Fund. Contemporary Review vol 239, 23-29.〕 that led Julian Huxley and Max Nicholson with him to start the World Wildlife Fund. They together with others they recruited founded the organization on 11 September 1961 in Switzerland.〔Kate Kellaway (7 November 2010). (How the Observer brought the WWF into being ) The Observer.〕〔(WWF in the 60's ) WWF online history〕〔Max Nicholson (1981). The first world conservation lecture. The Environmentalist Volume 1, Number 2, 109-116, 〕〔Scott, P. (1965). The launching of a new ark: first report of the President and Trustees of the World Wildlife Fund: an international foundation for saving the world's wildlife and wild places; 1961-1964. Collins〕〔Nicholls, H. The Way of the Panda: The Curious History of China's Political Animal (Profile Books, 2010), p. 65-67〕 Originally a Czechoslovakian refugee, Victor Stolan was by that time a naturalized UK citizen that had become a businessman and hotel owner. He died within a few years of the start of the WWF.〔Colin Willock (1991). Wildfight: a history of conservation. Jonathan Cape. p. 42.〕 ==Role in starting WWF== Victor Stolan, born 1893 in Czechoslovakia,〔(BRITISH COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND CZECH REFUGEE TRUST FUND DOCUMENTS AT THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE )〕 wrote to Julian Huxley, the author of three articles about the disappearance of wild life in Africa that first appeared in 13 November 1960 in The Observer with "The germ of the idea that was to result in the birth of the World Wildlife Fund".〔 In this letter, dated 6 December 1960, Stolan argued that an international appeal aiming to raise millions of pounds should be set up on behalf of all wild species threatened by extinction.〔 It "urged Huxley to put him in touch with a "single and uninhibited mind… with whom ideas can be developed and speedilly () directed towards accumulating some millions of pounds without mobilising commissions, committees etc as there is no time for Victorian procedure".〔 Huxley responded by putting him in contact with Max Nicholson who saw the logic of his argument and encouraged Victor to write a memorandum about setting up such a fund. This memorandum has been described as "brilliant, lengthy and eccentric".〔 It argued that help should be sought from the Pope and Archbishop of Canterbury: "Nobody is in too high a place to lend a hand to defend creation." He also argued that "new tycoons" be asked for money to create a "shining monument in history".〔 Nicholson checked the plausibility of setting up such a fund by showing the memorandum to Guy Mountfort, the head of a major advertising agency. This was, as "Nicholson later acknowledged, a turning point.〔 As a result, in May 1961, a meeting was held that included Peter Scott (the WWF's first chairman) as well as the three initiators.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Victor Stolan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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