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Promoting conservation, outdoor education, and humanitarian programs worldwide. The Conservation Equation in Africa. CITES Issue: Hunting Trophies. This week’s CITES Issue article will be the last post in our series of issues for the upcoming 17th Conference of the Parties (CoP17). CoP17 officially begins on Saturday, 24 … Continue reading →. September 20, 2016 · Leave a comment. North American Wildlife Conservation. September 15, 2016 · Leave a comment. IUCN Session: Does Hunting Have a Future? Animal M...
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Weekly Update: Montana Bitterroot Elk Project | First For Wildlife
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Promoting conservation, outdoor education, and humanitarian programs worldwide. The Conservation Equation in Africa. Weekly Update: Montana Bitterroot Elk Project. DNA-based estimates of adult mountain lions in Montana’s southern Bitterroot Valley showed much higher numbers than originally predicted. Initially, wolves were linked to the decrease in the elk population. However, researchers intensively monitored of elk mortalities, which showed mountain lions, not wolves, were the dominant predator...Other...
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Weekly Update: Namibia Leopard Project | First For Wildlife
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Promoting conservation, outdoor education, and humanitarian programs worldwide. The Conservation Equation in Africa. Weekly Update: Namibia Leopard Project. The first two phases revealed where farmers saw leopards and which livestock leopards were likely to kill. It was determined that cheetahs kill more total livestock than leopards, and as a result, more cheetahs are killed in human-wildlife conflicts than leopards. SCI Foundation recently issued a new grant to the project to replicate Phase III in the...
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Positive Enhancement Finding for Argali in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Mongolia | First For Wildlife
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Promoting conservation, outdoor education, and humanitarian programs worldwide. The Conservation Equation in Africa. Positive Enhancement Finding for Argali in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Mongolia. The US. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) recently found that the importation of argali sheep hunted in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Mongolia in 2015 would enhance the survival of the species in each country. Enhancement findings are annually required for argali before import permits are issued. The next task is to...
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Namibia Says No to Destroying Its Huge Ivory and Rhino Horn Stockpile | First For Wildlife
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Promoting conservation, outdoor education, and humanitarian programs worldwide. The Conservation Equation in Africa. Namibia Says No to Destroying Its Huge Ivory and Rhino Horn Stockpile. SCI Foundation has written a number of articles on poaching and specifically the crushing of ivory. Many differ on their opinions of having an ivory crush. The debate waivers on if it’s an effective awareness tool or a counterproductive practice that creates more harm than good. Still, some believe that legal trade will...
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American Wilderness Leadership School | First For Wildlife
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Promoting conservation, outdoor education, and humanitarian programs worldwide. The Conservation Equation in Africa. American Wilderness Leadership School. Several educators take part in a Safari Club International Foundation’s American Wilderness Leadership School stream ecology lessons near Jackson, Wyoming. Two recent AWLS boot camp graduates are George and Corrine Linck, educators from the Washington School District of Washington, Pennsylvania, who reflected on their AWLS experience. As part of the e...
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Anti-Poaching Efforts in Africa Aided by Uniform Donation | First For Wildlife
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Promoting conservation, outdoor education, and humanitarian programs worldwide. The Conservation Equation in Africa. Anti-Poaching Efforts in Africa Aided by Uniform Donation. For the past two years, governments around the world have been discussing how to help address the global poaching problem. Increasing the awareness of poaching has been a success, but few on the ground actions have been taken to address the actual problems. At SCI Foundation, we strive for on-the-ground progress, SCI Foundation Pre...