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Mar 25, 2024

Cinegética Hunting Fair 

SCI President John McLaurin, SCI President-elect Jeff Meyerl, SCI CEO Laird Hamberlin, SCI EVP Mike Rogers, J. Alain Smith, and Raymie Grimm led SCI’s delegation to the four-day Cinegética hunting fair in Madrid, Spain. Last year, SCI and Cinegética signed a partnership agreement to unite our organizations to advance conservation and the hunting culture.  The SCI Iberian Chapter had

Mar 25, 2024

Around the States: Alabama, Colorado, Delaware, IOTR, Pennsylvania, Washington

Alabama: SCI Eastern States and Local Liaison Bee Frederick attended the Alabama Legislative Sportsmen’s Caucus breakfast last week where he interacted with elected officials, state agency personnel, and partner sportsmen’s organizations on various hunting related issues. Pictured: Bee Frederick with State Representative Danny Crawford Colorado: SB24-131, as currently written, proposes to restricts hunters from carrying or possessing firearms

Mar 25, 2024

Federal: USFICA Passes Committee 42-7

On Wednesday, the House Foreign Affairs Committee held a markup on several bills, including H.R. 6727, to establish the United States Foundation for International Conservation to promote long-term management of protected and conserved areas. This bill creates a public/private funded effort to drive $1 billion towards international conservation over the next 5 years. The funds

Mar 25, 2024

UK Trophy Ban Advances to the House of Lords

After running out of time for further consideration in the UK House of Lords last year, a bill that would prohibit hunting trophy imports of all CITES-listed species was reproposed.  The bill had a second reading  and vote in the House of Commons last Friday.  Although relatively few Members of Parliament (out of the 650 total) attended,

Mar 22, 2024

SCI and SCI California Coalition Oppose Catalina Island Conservancy Attempt to Eradicate Mule Deer

Safari Club International (SCI) and SCI California Coalition staunchly oppose the Catalina Island Conservancy’s unscientific proposal to eradicate the mule deer population from the Island. Both organizations are advocating for reasonable alternatives, such as an expanded program of legal, regulated hunting, that would balance public enjoyment of wildlife with harvest opportunities for lean, organic sources

Mar 18, 2024

Around the States: Delaware, Florida, Kentucky, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin 

Delaware: Sunday hunting for game birds continues to move forward in the First State after House Bill 271 advanced in the Senate Environment, Energy and Transportation Committee last Tuesday. SCI Eastern States and Local Liaison Bee Frederick testified in support of the bill and joined several in state and national sportsmen’s organizations advocating for the repeal

Mar 15, 2024

Sako Ups Their Game 

There are a few adjectives that can be used to describe Finnish-made Sako rifles, but if you were to choose well designed, well made, accurate and reliable, you’d get no argument from me. 

Mar 15, 2024

South Pacific

The South Pacific holds three primary hunting destinations: Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia. There could be more. Papua New Guinea has been on-again, off-again. Indonesia, with 17,000 islands, has awesome potential but, despite many attempts, no outfitter has successfully waded through the murky politics.

Mar 12, 2024

SCI Joins with African Communities in Opposition to NY Trophy Importation Bill 

New York legislators have resurrected attempts to restrict the legal import of harvested African species from the countries with the largest populations of these animals in the world—and who rely on these species to support their well-managed conservation programs.  Senate bill 3302, the “Big Five African Trophies Act,” would ban in the State of New York

Mar 12, 2024

Around the States: Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Montana, Wisconsin

Delaware: SCI issued a HAAC and a letter of support for House Bill 271 and the expansion of Sunday hunting of game birds in the state. The bill, which passed unanimously out of the house, will be heard on Wednesday, March 13 in the Senate Environment, Energy, and Transportation Committee. Kansas/Missouri: SCI Western State and Local Liaison

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