Conservation

Community Potential in Mozambique, AWCF Host Country 2022

Community Potential in Mozambique, AWCF Host Country 2022 By: Claire Fortenberry SCI Foundation’s 20th African Wildlife Consultative Forum (AWCF) will be hosted in Maputo, Mozambique in October. This year’s forum will build on two decades of African leadership, collaboration, and action on international policy priorities for sustainable use wildlife conservation. The agenda will continue recent discussion …

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SCI Foundation Continues Longstanding Leadership with the African Wildlife Consultative Forum

SCI Foundation Continues Longstanding Leadership with the African Wildlife Consultative Forum (AWCF) By: Joe Goergen Planning is well underway for SCI Foundation’s historic 20th anniversary African Wildlife Consultative Forum (AWCF) to be held in Maputo, Mozambique from October 3-7. SCIF has hosted this high-level event for 20 years, bringing together a diverse group of stakeholders, senior …

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SCI Foundation Expands Conservation Activity In Europe

SCI Foundation Expands Conservation Activity In Europe Author: Dr. Chris Comer SCI Foundation and the Lusitânia Chapter of SCI recently signed an agreement to support important wildlife conservation and research activity in Portugal. The project involves translocation of roe deer to private forest lands in eastern Portugal where this species has been greatly reduced in abundance …

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SCI Foundation Engages on African Leopard Conservation

SCI Foundation Engages on African Leopard Conservation By: Dr. Chris Comer Safari Club International Foundation recently initiated a science-based conservation program focused on African leopards and the long-term sustainability of leopard populations. This program continues a tradition of engaging on predator and especially big cat conservation that includes work on African lions, snow leopards, and North …

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Do We Have To Choose Between Hunting OR Science?

We were mentioned in an opinion piece that criticized Vermont’s decision to increase Moose hunting permits. You’ll remember in March we updated you all on great progress made with Moose research in Vermont that resulted in a new hunting opportunity (an increase in 100 permits this year). The comment about us suggests SCI Foundation cares about …

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Safari Club Continues Long-Term Leadership at CITES

By: Joe Goergen & Jeremy Clare SCI and SCI Foundation have engaged with CITES since the Convention began in the 1970s, advocating for sustainable wildlife trade on behalf of the international hunting industry.  Both organizations continued this long-term advocacy at the recent 74th Standing Committee (SC74) meeting in Lyon, France March 7 – 11, 2022. CITES, …

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What Are Conservation Detection Dogs?

Important for better understanding predator-prey relations in Michigan is finding predator cluster sites of Bear, Bobcat, Coyote, and Wolf to analyze what predator species are feeding on what prey species

Botswana Wants Trophy Hunting

By Joe Goergen A recent publication by SCIF partners at the Okavango Research Institute highlights the importance of engaging local people in wildlife management decisions. The paper, published in the Journal of Sustainable Tourism, was led by Dr. Joseph Mbaiwa, Professor of Tourism Studies and Director of the institute, an internationally renowned academic center affiliated with …

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