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By T. R. Mader, Research Director | Abundant Wildlife Society of North America Mountain lions, also known as cougars, panthers, or pumas, are highly efficient predators. These cats have a wide range throughout the Western states, and populations are increasing. An individual cat’s range depends on food availability. Thus, a range can vary from 10 [...]

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SCI and the NRA are continuing their aggressive fight to protect the scientifically sound wolf hunts already underway in Montana and Idaho and to keep wolf management in the hands of the states. On November 8, 2011, SCI and NRA go back to court to battle anti-hunting organizations who ignore science for the purposes of [...]

SCI and the NRA Continue the Fight to Protect Idaho and Montana Wolf Hunts International Hunting Consultants

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H.R. 822 — National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act — Heading to House Floor; Contact your Representative Now! As the NRA has been reporting week in and week out, H.R. 822 — the “National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2011″ is very good legislation for gun owners. The time is past due to dispel the alarmist rhetoric about [...]

National Right to Carry Reciprocity Act International Hunting Consultants

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This is a pretty enlightening series of photos showing what happens to an elephant after all of the elephant hunting is over. Nothing is wasted. It IS legal to hunt elephants in many African countries. The meat is given to local people, it’s never wasted. The money from hunting the elephant goes towards elephant conservation. [...]

See What Happens to an Elephant After Elephant Hunting International Hunting Consultants

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By: Garth Owen-Smith, Co-director of IRDNC Namibia Over the past years the escalating media frenzy, sensational headlines and misinformation over the Ministry of Environment and Tourism’s issuing of trophy elephant hunting permits in Namibia has been incredible. Having worked as an agricultural official in the then Kaokoveld (1968-70), I was in charge of the Endangered [...]

Elephant Hunting – An Alternative View International Hunting Consultants

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by Safari Club International April 12, 2011 (Washington, DC) – A coalition of the nation’s largest hunting and conservation organizations welcomed a provision championed by Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus (CSC) member Rep. Mike Simpson of Idaho and CSC Senate Co-Chair, Sen. Jon Tester of Montana, to remove the gray wolf from the Endangered Species Act (ESA) [...]

Partial Delisting of Wolves Part of FY 2011 Budget Agreement in U.S. Congress International Hunting Consultants

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A century ago Africa had just 6,000 elephants left. Now there are 600,000, and some say they are a pest – which is why the guns are out. CEO of webhosting giant GoDaddy released a controversial YouTube video last month of him hunting elephants in Zimbabwe, Africa. Our own Marc Warnke was interviewed by The [...]

Bob Parsons of GoDaddy.com Shoots a Cull Elephant in Zimbabwe International Hunting Consultants

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by Dick Henry Many critics of antler restriction are quick to dismiss the program as a gimmick or another “flavor of the month” for deer management. However this notion ignores the basic breeding ecology of deer and the impacts that can affect a white-tailed deer herd when that ecology is compromised. Animal husbandry is in [...]

Biological and Other Compelling Needs for Antler Restriction International Hunting Consultants

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February 22, 2011 (Washington, DC) A coalition of the nation’s largest hunting and conservation groups has thanked members of Congress for taking several steps in the right direction for the conservation of wolves. The coalition recently reminded Congress that all wolves in the Rockies and Great Lakes area are recovered and should now be managed [...]

Sportsmen Unite in Support of State Management of Recovered Wolf Populations International Hunting Consultants

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by allAfrica.com Mbombela — A rhino DNA sample kit is expected to help prosecutors be even tougher on those caught with rhino horns. If DNA tests positively link a horn to a specific rhino carcass, poachers will no longer get away with only a charge of possession, they will also be charged with the illegal [...]

Technology Catches Up With Rhino Poachers International Hunting Consultants