| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Image: The RSPB The RSPB was formed to counter the barbarous trade in plumes for women's hats, a fashion responsible for the destruction of many thousands of egrets, birds of paradise and other species whose plumes had become fashionable in the late Victorian era.There had already been concern earlier in the century about the wholesale destruction of such native birds as great crested grebes and k
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