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The article reports on the plan of the Australian Mutual Provident Society to turn out a 1,000-acre farm as part of the Ninety-Mile Desert southeast of Adelaide, South Australia. According to the article, the area was covered with unhealthy scrub and received 20 inches of rainfall a year. Scientists have discovered that sheep disease in the desert was caused by lack of cobalt in the soil. Additionally, lack of zinc in soil also sickened the plants.

The article presents information on the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), an organization for wildlife conservation. Under the guidance of Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands, the fund's international president, WWF has launched 550 rescue projects for threatened species in 60 countries. WWF member Charles Lindbergh stopped the slaughter of the blue whale in Peru in 1966 by going directly to its President and urging him to order a stay on the hunting of whales.