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Call to Action! Reverse the Suspension: Attend SCI Lobby Day

In the wake of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service�s abrupt suspension of 2014 elephant trophy imports from Zimbabwe and Tanzania on Friday April 4, 2014, Safari Club International must sound the call for ACTION!

Now, more than ever, it is important that every SCI member travel to Washington, DC on Thursday May 8, 2014 to attend SCI�s Lobby Day on Capitol Hill. Hundreds of meetings with Congress and Administration officials will be scheduled by your Hunter Advocacy team to fight this suspension, all in the name of conservation.

It is imperative, if you are able to make it to Washington on the 8th, that you do so. Registration can be done simply by clicking the registration link below and completing the short form on the next page. Once submitted, a member of SCI�s staff will contact you with further details.

This year alone the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
1. Has begun work to ban the sale of firearms and knives that have ivory inlays on them.
2. Restricted elephant importations to 2 per year, per hunter; which we believe is in violation of the law.
3. Has banned elephant imports completely from Zimbabwe and Tanzania.
4. Is taking up the polar bear issue again at CITES.
5. Is considering listing of the lion under the Endangered Species Act.



This administration has clearly decided that we are a target. You need to be with us on May 8th, 2014 to take a stand for our sport. If you cannot make it, we hope you can spread the message to others to attend on behalf of hunters everywhere. At the very minimum, we ask that you contact your congressman via email to oppose the trophy import ban by going here: http://bit.ly/1lMPUwC. Quite frankly, this is the year that we need to take the fight to them and make our voices heard in Washington, D.C.

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From a very knowledgeable and well-respected gent over on AR, reality:


FYI while putting together thoughts on the USF&W moratorium on ivory importation.

Zim vs. TZ
First thing one has to do seperate these 2 countries when you think about the USF&W decision and elephant populations. I agree with all Zig had to say on the subject about Zim.

Zim needs to get the illicit inside-the-parks and ration hunting thing under control and they are back on track.

TZ on the other hand is a different story. Poaching has taken a serious toll on the ele in that country. By all information I can put together...since the the 90's...ele populations in areas like the Selous have been reduced by close to 90%.

When you think about a species that lives to 60 plus years and has a gestation period of 645 days...this is serious. Some operators in TZ have noted this trend for some time and have self-limited there off-take in their blocks.

Basically in many places in TZ...what is left is a bare minimum breeding population. Realistically...nothing should be removed from these herds but 40+ year old bulls...which are few and far between.

While we have debated lion many times...lion and and ele are totally different. Lion in the wild live max to early teens...with most males not living to see 10. Ele live to 60+. Lion have a gestation perion of ~110 days and give berth to litters. Ele, 645 for a single calf. Lion are breeding by 2-3 years of age...ele mid to late teens.

Until poaching is brought under control...ele hunting in TZ needs to be strictly managed and no bulls less than 40 need be harvested.

While I vehemently oppose the USF&W banning ivory import of sport hunted ele as it punishes the wrong people and does nothing to stop "the problem" of poaching (may actually promote more poaching indirectly)...hunters hunting ele in TZ should be keenly aware of the scientific facts stated above.

If we are going to promote hunting as a conservation tool...we, hunters, have to stay conservation minded...and not hide from the facts.

Again...FWIW...FYI.


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Originally Posted by AB2506
You have an liberal activist administration in the Whitehouse. What they can't accomplish legislatively, they are accomplishing administratively.

America voted for Obama and this is just some of the "change" America gets.

I nominate Obama for the title of the worst President ever.

I'll second that nomination.


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