S3DA, SCI Foundation Team Up To Award Youth Deer Hunt
For the second consecutive year, the Education Department of SCI Foundation is partnering with Scholastic 3D Archery (S3DA) to donate a mule deer to one lucky youth hunter. If selected, the 2020 winner will have an exciting opportunity to hunt a New Mexico Mule Deer, October 31-November 4. The deadline to apply for the 2020
SCI Demands Answers from Tech Giant on Social Media Censorship
Today, Safari Club International CEO W. Laird Hamberlin sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg calling for Facebook and Instagram to immediately halt the company’s deliberate and ongoing censorship of The Hunting Consortium Inc, a globally well-respected hunting consulting organization. This past summer, SCI became aware of a specific incident involving The Hunting Consortium’s
Welcome To The Rural
Pandemic. Unpredictable. Subversion. Compliance. Chaos. These are the words trending in 2020, a year most certainly proven to be unpredictable. With News and Tabloid headlines constantly promoting doom and gloom, stories of corrupt Government, cities being ransacked “for a cause”, many of us are left with strong feelings of uncertainty, fear for our families, and
Early Season Northeastern Whitetail Strategies
Gus Congemi has been an avid bow hunter for 21 years and among his many accomplishments, has the #1 brown bear archery, #2 tahr archery, #7 free range stag archery and #9 Cape Buffalo archery in the SCI record book. In September SCI announced a sponsorship with his program, Live The Wild Life. I’ve hunted
PH Spotlight: Darren DeLuca
Though he grew up in British Columbia, hunting and fishing opportunities were not readily available for DeLuca as his dad was a logger who didn’t hunt and was not a skilled fisherman. Around the age of 17, DeLuca started hunting and fishing with friends, and began exploring Vancouver Island and the surrounding waters. Great adventures
Field Report: Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep
J. Alain Smith reports on a recent epic hunt in Oregon With all the negative news going around these days was I excited to have a tag for a Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep in my pocket on August 1st! As if that wasn’t special enough, we were going sheep hunting in one of the most
Zimbabwe Opens for International Tourism by Air Travel
Zimbabwe has reopened for international tourism, allowing commercial passenger flights to land at its airports as of today October 1st. According to Zimbabwe Minister of Environment, Climate, Tourism and Hospitality Mangaliso Ndlovu, the country’s tourism industry has resumed full operations. Hotel and lodges are open, as well as restaurants and all registered tourism attractions and
America’s Conservation Enhancement Act Passed by Congress
Today, the United States House of Representatives passed by voice vote the America’s Conservation Enhancement Act, in a major win for wildlife and conservation everywhere. Among other things, this legislation will reauthorize several existing wildlife and conservation programs like the North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA), while also addressing high priority issues like Chronic Wasting
SCI-PAC Endorses “First for Hunters” Federal Candidates
Today, Safari Club International’s Political Action Committee (SCI-PAC) announced its official endorsement of thirty-three candidates for the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives. The candidates listed below have all established themselves as unwavering advocates for America’s sportsmen and sportswomen. The group of candidates that SCI-PAC endorsed today is made up of strong pro-hunting incumbents
SCI Launches Campaign to Address Disinformation About Hunting
Anti-hunting organizations are more desperate than ever to smear hunting and hunters, and they’re actively working to spread falsehoods about hunting and the positive impact it can have on wildlife conservation and rural communities around the world – all in order to turn the public against hunting and to pressure politicians to vote for misguided