This year marks the 43 year of the AWLS program. Since its inception, the AWLS program has provided a host of information, curriculum resources, and networking opportunities to participants who have taken this world class professional development program. The focus has been and continues to be on the concept of teaching the importance of conservation and …
AWLS Introduces New Learning Opportunities to Educators Read More »
Despite ample evidence showing that legal, regulated hunting is an important economic and management component of wildlife conservation in Africa, we have recently seen increased pressure from North America and Europe to limit importation of hunting trophies. These arguments are typically based primarily on emotion and false narratives about wildlife and its conservation. Uncertainty about …
SCIF Conservation Preparing Strategy for African Leopard Conservation Read More »
SCI Foundation has developed and implemented numerous programs supporting recruitment, retention, and reactivation (R3) activities seeking to create new participants or increase participation rates in activities like fishing, hunting and shooting. Current trends show a decline in the number of new hunters entering the sport. Adding new hunters to replace those that are leaving is essential …
SCIF Sets Sights on R3 Programs to Encourage Youth Hunters Read More »
Meals being loaded onto truck for shipment to Mozambique Helping people helps wildlife. SCI members have a long history of “Paying it Forward” around the world. The SafariCare Bell Family Blue Bag Program brings much needed humanitarian aid to some of the most remote corners of the world. To help those in need following the devastation …
SCI Foundation and IWFF Support Hunger Relief Efforts in Mozambique Read More »
Photos courtesy of Chico La Barbera Organized by an SCI and Sable Life Member and partially funded by Badgerland, Southeastern Wisconsin Bowhunters and the Wisconsin Chapters of SCI, the Midwest Outdoor Heritage Education Expo hosted 3,263 students, teachers, and chaperones from 49 schools and six homeschool groups, May 16-17, 2019. One of the Top 3 free …
By Chris Comer, Ph.D., SCIF Director of Conservation Deer and elk hunters in North America have been bombarded recently with more news items about a topic they would probably just as soon forget: chronic wasting disease (CWD). It started in the fall and winter with announcements that this potentially devastating disease had been detected in Quebec …
Safari Club International Foundation (SCIF), has a long history of supporting education and teaching about conservation and the role hunters plays in it. Since 1977, they have provided an educational program called the American Wilderness Leadership School (AWLS). AWLS focuses on providing educators the most effective ways to share and teach about conservation and role …
AWLS Program Educates Hundreds to Reach Thousands Read More »
[iframe src=”https://www.rferl.org/embed/player/0/29917243.html?type=video”] The striped hyena is classified as “Near Threatened” by the IUCN but listed on Tajikistan’s Red Book of endangered species with a declining population. This area represents the extreme outer range of the striped hyena in Central Asia. Hyenas are challenged by living close to areas of high human density and local pastoral communities …
Not The Last Laugh: Rare Hyena Spotted In Tajikistan Read More »
Over the past decade, I have had the privilege of serving on SCI Foundation’s Conservation Committee and recently succeeded my friend, Al Maki, as the new Chair after years of Al’s dedicated service. I have been a member of SCI for 15 years. I joined back then and continue my membership today because I see SCI …
A Message from your SCI Foundation Conservation Committee Chair Read More »
[iframe src=” https://www.youtube.com/embed/ITntshBG5QU “] Last year, SCIF began support for the conservation of wild Bukhara urial sheep in southwestern Tajikistan. Urial is a species that is vulnerable itself, threatened by poaching and intensive pressure from livestock grazing, but a community-based model funded by hunting is also proving to benefit other endangered wildlife, including the striped hyena. The …
SCIF Community-Based Hunting Program Helps Other Endangered Wildlife in Tajikistan Read More »
