Safari Club International Foundation hosted its 20th annual African Wildlife Consultative Forum (AWCF) in Maputo, Mozambique this week. This year’s Forum once again brought together a diverse group of international stakeholders—from African government officials to wildlife biologists.
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has released a statement, saying: "Newly-revealed Russian outrages including the attacks on a maternity hospital and innocent women and children further reinforces the necessity for all European nations to have an armed and trained populace."
Today, Safari Club International Foundation (SCIF) facilitated a special session of the African Wildlife Consultative Forum (AWCF), chaired by Botswana’s Department of Wildlife and National Parks. The forum, established by SCIF in 2002, is a collaborative space for African wildlife authorities, the professional hunting industry, and community-based organizations to work together.
The Panama Tourism Authority (ATP), in alliance with the Ministry of Environment, has launched the “1,000 Kilometers of Trails” Project to preserve important ecological trails critical to tourism, ecology, and scientific discovery.
FECOP, a Costa Rica sportfishing lobby group, has called for moving the foreign tuna seiner fleet from 40 miles off the coast to 60 miles.
Yesterday, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt finalized a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Israeli authorities to support future cooperation and exchanges on biodiversity conservation, protected areas and the protection of cultural and historical heritage.
Between May 13th, when restrictions were lifted, and June 9th, more than 335,000 licences were purchased, an increase of more than 200,000 on the same period last year.
The Coast Guard and a good Samaritan rescued two fishermen, Monday, who were presumed lost at sea, 23 miles northeast of Cat Island, Bahamas.
The closure currently is until April 8, but is likely to be extended during the next parliamentary session.
Automated Export Processing, Inc. (AEP) has begun preliminary tests of its EasyExport automated export processing system with four customers, Volquartsen Firearms, LaRue Tactical, Elite Tactical Systems (ETS) and TANDEMKROSS.
Conservation Force has hired Marco Pani of Rome, Italy, as a full-time African Field Representative.
It is critical that the Conservation Conversation always include people as much as it does wildlife. This was the overarching message from Botswana Minister of Environment Natural Resources and Conservation and Tourism Onkokame Kitso Mokalla during yesterday's press conference on lifting the five-year suspension on hunting in that country.
While NMMA is encouraged by some recent updates in the trade war, many of the challenges that plagued marine manufacturers for the better part of this year will carry over into 2019.
Brazil has established itself as a world leader in biodiversity protection, becoming the first nation in the world to adopt the global Alliance forZero Extinction(AZE) framework to identify and map sites holding the last known populations of highly threatened species.
The U.S. marine industry is facing a triple threat from Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum, anti-dumping and countervailing duties on Chinese aluminum sheet, and 301 tariffs on nearly 300 marine related products.
An average Canadian angler can lose 11 to 15 jigs and sinkers per year while fishing due to snags and other reasons. This adds up to about 460 tonnes of lead jigs and sinkers lost every year into Canada’s lakes and waterways.
Aeriel Skinner’s trip to the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup in Guadalajara, Mexico may come to be known as her “bronze age.” In just her second ISSF World Cup appearance, Skinner picked up another bronze medal yesterday with her teammate Mick Wertz in the Trap Mixed Team event, one of the newly-minted Olympic shooting events.