Editing 1911 in science (section)

==Conservation==
* May 19 – [[Parks Canada]], the world's first [[national park]] service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the [[Environment Canada|Department of the Interior]].
* July 7 – The United States, Russia, the United Kingdom and Japan, meeting in Washington, D.C., sign the [[North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911]], prohibiting open-water [[seal hunting]] of the endangered [[fur seal]] in the North Pacific Ocean,<ref>{{cite news|title=Seal Treaty Signed|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=1911-07-08}}</ref> the first international [[treaty]] to address [[wildlife conservation]] issues. In the next six years, the seal population increases by 30%.<ref>{{cite book|first=Shigeru|last=Oda|title=International Control of Sea Resources|publisher=Martinus Nijhoff Publishers|year=1989|page=76}}</ref>