April 2, 2020
Motivation vs. Justification: Hunting from the Heart
The hunting conservationist’s perspectives can be presented in ways that touch emotions and make change imaginable.READ MORE
April 2, 2020
US Senate Passes a Comprehensive Sporting-Conservation Package
The bipartisan America’s Conservation Enhancement (ACE) Act contains a number of long-standing priorities for sportsmen and other conservationists and authorizes critical funding for habitat and wildlife. Now it must pass the House.READ MORE
April 2, 2020
The Sounds of Science and Hunting
An Alaskan ecology professor takes to the airwaves with a science podcast for hunters—or is it a hunting podcast for scientists?READ MORE
January 1, 2020
Social Media for (not against) Hunters
Hunters must present their case in all forms of social media—the tools are there, but long-term strategic commitment and the action of individual hunters is lacking. Here is how it could be done.READ MORE
January 1, 2020
The Value of Hunting Stories for Conservation
January 1, 2020
What is ‘Ethical Fair-Chase Hunting’? For starters, it’s a worthy dinner-table topic
What constitutes the sportsmanlike pursuit of game? Is fair chase still fair? How do we explain hunting ethics, and ourselves, to the general public?READ MORE
January 1, 2020
Trophy Hunting: A plea to appreciate that not all is black & white
This article, by a non-hunting research scientist who works in Tanzania, adds a voice of reason to the overheating debate on trophy hunting. Strampelli makes convincing arguments for a more nuanced approach by hunters, non-hunters and anti-hunters alike.READ MORE
January 1, 2020
The Business of Conservation
On 25 November 2014, Paul Tudor Jones II delivered the second Andrew Carnegie Lecture at the University of Glasgow. Here are extracts of his lecture and observations. During a time of overheating controversy about the “right” approaches to conservation, his remarks focus on solutions, which are as valid today as they were five years ago.READ MORE
January 1, 2020
ProTECT Act Does Not “Protect” Endangered Species
The “Prohibiting Threatened and Endangered Creature Trophies Act of 2019” (H.R. 4804), also known as the ProTECT Act, and the “Conserving Ecosystems by Ceasing the Importation of Large Animal Trophies Act” (H.R. 2245), or CECIL Act, are two recent legislative actions that are aimed at destroying the value of our science-based conservation funding model.READ MORE
January 1, 2020
Morality and conservation: It’s a conundrum, isn’t it?
If it is morally wrong to shoot a problem elephant, buffalo or lion, then surely it is morally wrong to shoot a problem rabbit, goat or cat? Or trap a problem mouse? Or to stamp on a problem cockroach?READ MORE