Safari Club International Foundation (SCIF) recently hosted its 19th African Wildlife Consultative Forum in Kasane, Botswana in November 2021. Following the successful event, the SCIF team, led by the Ngamiland Council of NGOs along with a delegation from the Department of Wildlife and National Parks and Botswana Wildlife Producers Association, toured several community areas of northern …
Safari Club International Foundation (SCIF) is busy planning its participation in the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) World Conservation Congress (WCC) from 3-11 September in Marseille, France. The WCC is IUCN’s official decision-making body of its member organizations that meets every four years. The Congress is a massive meeting of wildlife conservationists, a …
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The Hunter Legacy 100 Fund (HLF 100 Fund) recently awarded Safari Club International Foundation (SCIF) a grant of $50,000 to secure the long-term future of the African Wildlife Consultative Forum (AWCF). The HLF 100 Fund endowment was created in support of approved SCIF projects in the areas of world-wide conservation, outdoor education, and humanitarian projects. Since …
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A SCIF funded project on sitatunga in Uganda recently published a scientific article, “Population density of sitatunga in riverine wetland habitats.” The researcher, Dr. Camille Warbington, also recently defended her PhD dissertation at the University of Alberta. Sitatunga are a very under studied species, owing to their elusive nature in deep papyrus swamps, so this study …
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By Joe Goergen You’ve heard of CITES, but what is CMS and why is it important to SCIF’s mission? CMS stands for the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, otherwise known as the Bonn Convention. SCIF staff recently participated virtually in the 5th Meeting of the Sessional Committee of the Scientific Council …
SCIF Conservation Manager, Joe Goergen, made an official intervention on the virtual floor of the CITES 31st Animals Committee meeting calling for more range state involvement in work related to African lions. SCIF was the only observer to intervene on this agenda item important to hunters and the southern African region. SCI and SCIF continue to …
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Safari Club International Foundation (SCIF) is pleased to announce the support of the National Capital Chapter with their recent donation to our grizzly bear conservation strategy. “Our Chapter is happy to contribute to SCIF’s grizzly bear conservation efforts,” said Stephanie Spika Hickey, President of the National Capital Chapter. “It’s important for Chapters to step up and fund …
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By Joe Goergen Safari Club International Foundation (SCIF) over the weekend participated in its first bear spray giveaway event with the Wyoming Game & Fish Department (WGFD), publicly launching the organization’s new work on grizzly bear conflict mitigation. Thanks to a recent grant award from the Wyoming Wildlife Foundation’s Memorial Bear Fund, SCIF donated 100 cans …
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Last week, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) released an update to its Red List assessment of African elephant, concluding that the species suffered a significant population reduction between the 1970s and 2016. But the IUCN acknowledged that the decline is not uniform across the elephant’s range, and that elephant populations are most secure …
The Missouri Conservation Commission has announced the season dates and harvest quotas for the state’s first ever regulated black bear hunt. The season will run from October 18-27, 2021 with a harvest quota of 40 bears. Permits are limited to Missouri residents and will be issued by random drawing. The application period is May 1-31 and …
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