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Please see mini-documentary from Dallas Safari Club Foundation: Africa - The Unheard Voice "As the debate continues between the anti-hunting community and those who believe in the "Conservation Through Hunting" model, the unheard voice is the rural African who must live among the wild animals...

Community Benefits from Tourist Safari Hunting (August 22, 2018) Hunters have a relationship with rural communities as well as wildlife, and they highly value both. The habitat and wildlife are a common bond that benefits the hunter, and the rural people that need each other. Regulated...

The primary threats to the African elephant (Loxodonta africana) are habitat loss and fragmentation, commercial ivory poaching, and retaliatory killing.1 Safari hunting2 has been generating benefits and revenues that are especially effective and unique in reducing those threats and conserving...

The African elephant is listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. It is split-listed under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species(CITES). The populations of Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe were downlisted to CITES Appendix II with annotations...

See the attached pdf files

See the attached pdf files

Legal, regulated tourist hunting of African leopard (Panthera pardus) benefits the species through mitigation of the primary threats: habitat loss and fragmentation; increased human populations leading to higher incidence of human-wildlife conflict; poaching and illegal wildlife trade; and prey...

Zimbabwe’s elephant population has grown from under 5,000 in 1900 to over 83,000 today. Zimbabwe’s elephant population, alone, is larger than the estimated populations of West and Central Africa combined (without including guesses), and is almost the same size as the estimated population of all...

Conservation Force Bulletin: New Motions in Suits Challenging the Positive 2017 Elephant and Lion Enhancement Findings More animal extremists have joined the suits to set aside the Zimbabwe lion and elephant enhancement findings, and all have filed motions for summary judgments citing the...

Dear Supporter, Our twentieth anniversary year has been one of the most successful in our history. We have been rewarded with many hard-earned victories. But as this is being written the media and anti- hunters have bombarded the President with “false facts” that threaten some of our...

by John Jackson III (Conservation Force) Media outlets are reporting that “Xanda,” a six-year-old African lion and the alleged “son” of “Cecil,” was recently killed in a lawful tourist hunt in northwestern Zimbabwe. The reports are inconsistent and biased. Most of all, they ignore the critical...

Helpful article to support sustainable use. See attached DiMinin.pdf article: Banning Trophy Hunting Will Exacerbate Biodiversity Loss

Helpful article to support sustainable use. See attached Moorhouse.pdf article: The Customer Isn't Always Right - Conservation and Animal Welfare Implications of the Increasing Demand for Wildlife Tourism

Helpful article to support sustainable use. See attached Hurley.pdf article: The role of hunters in conservation, restoration, and management of North American wild sheep

Helpful article to support sustainable use. See attached Kibonde.pdf article: Selous Game Reserve: Is There Any Hope for the Future?

See attached pdf file. Conservation Force Response to Canadian Press Article Regarding the Cancellation of African Hunting Events Show By Regina Lennox / Conservation Force / www.conservationforce.org Comment on Article – With References The following comment was prepared in response to a...

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WWF-South Africa regards hunting as a legitimate conservation management tool and incentive for conservation, and regularly engages with major game hunting associations to promote ethical hunting and combat inhumane practices. We aren’t opposed at all to trophy hunting and wholeheartedly...

SEE ATTACHED PDF DOCUMENT - FACT SHEETS – CECIL-MANIA: SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT The death of “Cecil the lion” has been international news for weeks. But unfortunately, much of the information represented as “fact” is skewed or exaggerated. This is not good for the image of hunting. The...

See attached article: Hunting A Great Debate - Article by John Hanks from November 2013 Africa Geographic

Questions & Answers Suspension of Import of Elephant Hunting Trophies Taken in Tanzania and Zimbabwe in 2014 Questions & Answers See attached pdf file.

South Africa's Protected Area Act of 2003 Hurts Wildlife & Habitats by John J. Jackson III, Conservation Force Chairman & President by Ron Thomson (The Chief Executive Officer of South African National Parks has wrongly come under attack from animal rights groups for allowing hunting in...

What Was Truly at Stake with the Polar Bear Proposal by John J. Jackson III, Conservation Force Chairman & President Intervention Presented by WAFWA at the CITES 16th Conference of the Parties in Bangkok, Thailand Bob Broscheid, March 7, 2013 Thank You Madame Chair- On behalf of the...

2012 Zambia Elephant Trophy Imports Approved by John J. Jackson III, Conservation Force Chairman & President In January, the USFWS finally issued elephant trophy import permits for Zambia for the year 2012. Permits have been granted for all the hunters that Conservation Force was assisting...

Why Hunt Wild Cats: Arguments Previously Made By USFWS and African Nations by John J. Jackson III, Conservation Force Chairman & President In the face of the recent indefinite closure of lion and leopard hunting in Zambia, following Botswana's announcement of the 2014 closure of all but...

Rhino Populations Grow Despite Poaching by John J. Jackson III, Conservation Force Chairman & President There is a poaching crisis in Africa at this time, but rhino numbers are still growing in Namibia and the Republic of South Africa. At CITES CoP16, the African Rhino Specialist Group of...

A CITES CoP16 Report: Key Wins, Some Losses for the Hunting Community by John J. Jackson III, Conservation Force Chairman & President (posted April 2013) The 16th Conference of the Parties of CITES was held in Bangkok, Thailand from Sunday, March 3 through Friday, March 15. The Conference...

Mozambique and Cameroon Hippo Trade Suspended by CITES by John J. Jackson III, Conservation Force Chairman & President (posted March 2013) At the January/February conventions some people, including hunting operators, did not know that the CITES Standing Committee had suspended all trade in...

US Fish and Wildlife Service Announces 90-Day Finding on ESA Listing for African Lion Written By John J. Jackson III, Conservation Force Chairman & President The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced a 90-day finding on a petition to list the African lion as endangered under the...

The Significance of African Lions for the Financial Vialbility of Trophy Hunting and the Maintenance of Wild Land View the entire article at the-significance-of-african-lions-for-the-financial-vialbility-of-trophy-hunting-and-the-maintenance-of-wild-land.pdf. The Significance of African Lions...

Getting To The Root Of The Trophy Seizure Crisis The History and Genesis Of The Problem by John J. Jackson III, Conservation Force Chairman & President (posted October 2011) The increase in the senseless seizures and forfeitures of hunting trophies by the US Fish & Wildlife Service...

Cheetah Import Permits Denied Again On July 28, 2011 the Division of Management Authority of the US Fish & Wildlife Service (USF&WS) denied Conservat ion Force's Request for Reconsideration of the 2003 denials of various cheetah trophy applications to import cheetah hunting trophies. The...

Special Coverage On Elephant Imports: Challenging The USFWS Definition of “Trophy” by John J. Jackson III, Conservation Force Chairman & President In this issue I continue with the oral hearing of another court case, this one in the Federal District Court (Teddy Roosevelt Courthouse) in...

Elephant Hunting in Zambia Zambia Initiative Success: The USF&WS confirms its promise to finally permit import of Zambia elephant trophies. Conservation Force is preparing permit applications for the first US applicants in years. Following the adoption of a new management plan in 2004, Zambia...

What is Worked Ivory and When is it Importable? There are two areas of confusion about import of elephant ivory hunting trophies. The first is: What is “worked” ivory? And the second is whether import permits can be obtained. It is extremely complex, but we will present it simply. When is...

RSA Appeals Court Overturns Regulation on Lion Hunting The appeals court in South Africa has reversed the lower court decision that had upheld the regulations on lion hunting. The appeals court held that the regulations were irrational thus illegal. The court found that the purpose of the...

How To Avoid CITES Trophy Import Seizures A Step-by-Step Guide On Who Is Responsible For What The Responsibility of Export and Import Agents: Many of the errors that underlie the current seizure crisis are the fault of the expert subcontractors that hunters rely upon to export and import their...

A Tool For Lion Hunters: The Pocket Guide To Aging Lions In November, Conservation Force began widely distributing a condensed version of its Guide to Aging Lion in East and Southern Africa. The free guide occupies the last two pages of this Bulletin. It has been circulated to professional...

A Tool For Lion Hunters: The Pocket Guide To Aging Lions A Tool For Lion Hunters: The Pocket Guide To Aging Lions In November, Conservation Force began widely distributing a condensed version of its Guide to Aging Lion in East and Southern Africa. The free guide occupies the last two pages...

Judging Lion A Tool For Lion Hunters: The Pocket Guide To Aging Lions In November, Conservation Force began widely distributing a condensed version of its Guide to Aging Lion in East and Southern Africa. The free guide occupies the last two pages of this Bulletin. It has been circulated to...

A Tool For Lion Hunters: The Pocket Guide To Aging Lions

Sportsmen are the Foundation of U.S. Wildlife Conservation click on image to enlarge

The Conservation Value of Tourist Safari Hunting Faru kali - Rhino in Maasai by Wildlife Artist Franck Maes In the last quarter of the 20th Century, a new conservation tool arose from regulated sport hunting. The safari hunting industry began providing new conservation opportunities. Safari...

The Role & Value of Hunting - What it Means in Human Terms ● I am enamour'd of growing out-doors, Of men that live among cattle or taste of the ocean or woods, Of the builders and steerers of ships and the wilders of axes and mauls, and the drivers of horses, I can eat and sleep with them...

Sportsmen are the Foundation of U.S. Wildlife Conservation click on image to enlarge

Why We Hunt: Two Important Perspectives by Dr. Randall Eaton & by Shane Mahoney Neanderthal Caveman Editor Note: You need to know why you hunt to protect your right to hunt. This is because the general public misperceives the motivation of hunters and the anti-hunters misrepresent it. At...

The Conservation Value of Tourist Safari Hunting The Conservation Value of Tourist Safari Hunting In the last quarter of the 20th Century, a new conservation tool arose from regulated sport hunting. The safari hunting industry began providing new conservation opportunities. Safari hunters...

Why We Hunt: Call of the Chase The Meaning of Trophy in Male Initiation 的知 not a trophy hunter, my hunting partner declares. So I ask him, 的f there are two identical bucks, same size, weight and condition, standing side by side facing you, but one is a four-point and the other is a...