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Bob Swinehart

Bert Klineburger with a giant pair of 100 pounders from a self guided hunt the Central African Republic

Bert Klineburger with his hundred pounder taken in 1963 on a trip to plan the opening of the Selous Reserve with the new government of Tanzania.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/giraffe-shot-woman-kills-black-endangered-vegetarian-vegan-a8429266.html To be clear, I’m not suggesting that killing animals for meat is the same as killing for sport. No; in many ways it’s actually worse to kill for meat "Seeing someone...

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/grandmother-alligator-kill-revenge-judy-cochran-miniature-horse-texas-a8546066.html Mayor of Texas town now plans to make boots from animal's belly and have head mounted A great-grandmother has shot and killed a 12ft alligator at her...

Conservation Triage with Dr. John Hanks Dr. John Hanks is a former Peace Parks Foundation director. He has spent his entire working life in conservation. In this short video he laments the fact that things have changed drastically since he first started working in Africa. He also discusses the...

Conservation Triage with Dr. John Hanks Dr. John Hanks is a former Peace Parks Foundation director. He has spent his entire working life in conservation. In this short video he laments the fact that things have changed drastically since he first started working in Africa. He also discusses...

Source: http://www.tourismupdate.co.za/article/180491/Tanzania-to-upgrade-five-reserves-to-national-parks Tanzania to upgrade five reserves to national parks President of Tanzania, John Magufuli, recently approved a proposal to upgrade five game reserves into national parks with the aim of...

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45865403?SThisFB There's a looming crisis over the world's growing appetite for meat. Could a chicken running around a farmyard in San Francisco hold the key to a solution? In 1931, Winston Churchill predicted that the human race would one...

Rose Mandisodza-Chikerema, Chief Ecologist, Zimbabwe Parks & Wildlife Authority, explains how trophy hunting provides incentives and money that will be used by the local communities in marginalized areas to improve infrastructure, provide clinics, pay for school and even pipe water from a bore...

Professor Mbaiwa, University of Botswana Okavango Research Institute & Department of Tourism Studies, describes the current conditions in Botswana as it pertains to elephant populations, international hunting and photo safaris. Safari Club Interview with Botswana's Professor Joseph Mbaiwa by...

Rose Mandisodza-Chikerema, Chief Ecologist, Zimbabwe Parks & Wildlife Authority, explains how trophy hunting provides incentives and money that will be used by the local communities in marginalized areas to improve infrastructure, provide clinics, pay for school and even pipe water from a bore...

Professor Mbaiwa, University of Botswana Okavango Research Institute & Department of Tourism Studies, describes the current conditions in Botswana as it pertains to elephant populations, international hunting and photo safaris.

Source: https://www.thestatesman.com/cities/man-eating-leopard-killed-bageshwar-1502696334.html A man-eater becoming active in remote part of the Uttarakhand is a relatively common thing. But a leopard becoming active in a market place is something unusual. A man-eater becoming active in...

Source: https://www.iol.co.za/news/opinion/has-rhino-poaching-decreased-or-are-we-running-out-of-rhinos-17288261 A strategic report on poaching just released by the Department of Environmental Affairs shows that fewer rhinos but more elephants are being killed. Of concern, however, is...

Source: https://ewn.co.za/2018/10/12/pipe-bomb-discovered-in-kruger-national-park SANParks says the bomb was not a homemade device but seems to have been manufactured and purchased through legal means. JOHANNESBURG – The South African National Parks (SANParks) has confirmed a bomb has been...

Source: https://guardian.ng/property/african-leaders-seek-1billion-for-elephant-conservation/ Amid the urgent and complex global challenge that illegal wildlife trade poses, Nigeria and other African leaders have called on international donors to commit $1 billion over the next 12 years to...

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/india-pandharkawada-man-eating-tiger-hunt-territory-conservation-13-dead-a8529906.html India hunts man-eating tiger blamed for 13 deaths in territory conflict 'I don’t want to kill this beautiful animal, but there’s a hell of a lot of...

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/india-man-eating-tiger-t1-deaths-pandharkawada-supreme-court-a8535721.html Tiger numbers increasing but rapid deforestation creates conflict between animals and humans An appeal to prevent forest rangers from executing a tiger believed...

Magnificent Kudu!

Source: https://www.themastonline.com/2018/10/05/wildlife-officers-arrest-2-magistrates-in-anti-poaching-raid/ WILDLIFE officers in Livingstone have arrested two Local court magistrates together with three perches for allegedly killing two White Rhinos in Musi-oa-Tunya National Park last...

A few vintage pics

Central Africa, professional hunter Denis Lyell with an African Elephant tusk

German East Africa, 1910. Giant Rhino

King of the Wakikuyu and one-time owner of Mount Kenya

Hunter with native guide in German Cameroon, 1911.

Jack O'Connor & Harry Manners hunting Kudu bulls in Mozambique.

Source: https://www.ozy.com/fast-forward/south-africas-secret-for-saving-species-breed-them-for-hunting/89138 Hunters are spending more on this industry, which is helping South Africa revive its wildlife to levels unseen in a century. At first, I put it down to the February heat...

Source: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2018-09-25-hunting-bans-would-condemn-a-lot-of-game/ Another hunting photo, another fit of celebrity-led social media outrage. Clamouring for a ban on trophy hunting from the comfort of their wealthy, urban armchairs, none understand the...

Source: https://www.sapeople.com/2018/09/14/hippo-takes-a-dip-in-the-ocean-in-kzn-south-africa/ You never know who you’ll bump into on the beach! iSimangaliso Wetland Park posted these two surprising photos last night after their Infrastructure Manager, Mike Bouwer, happened across a...