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Lederen by Nils-Ole Stubberud
Dear members, It is crucial that we support the hunting industry
around the world. Face it, absent SCI,
FACE recently launched its new Biodiversity international hunting today would not be what it
Manifesto, which is Europe’s first evidence-based is. SCI was the impetus that expanded global
platform showing how Europe’s hunters conserve hunting into a major industry and SCI is here to
biodiversity. help keep that proud tradition alive.
Many of the guides and outfitters around the
The substantial and growing database of over world have suffered tremendously from the
470 hunting-related conservation projects shows pandemic, which literally halted most, if not all,
the importance of hunters’ efforts within and hunting in many areas around the world.
outside protected areas, on a variety of different
habitat types and species. The way all members can help hunting overall,
and guides and outfitters directly, is to go hunting.
We now have strong evidence to show how As the world opens up, go on that dream hunt. It
hunters are successfully implementing the EU is a way for each member individually to do
Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 and make a crucial something that is enjoyable and that will help our
contribution to habitats restoration, protected friends and colleagues, the guides and outfitters,
areas, species monitoring and much more. get back on an even keel.
But the future of hunting and conservation is SCI’s real strength is its membership. When we
under threat. all work together toward common goals, we can
achieve great things. And saving hunting while
Bird hunting, habitat for game, large carnivore conserving wildlife are great things.
management, Europe’s hunting cultures, and our
incentives to conserve nature are at risk from Regardless of what you do between now and
problematic policy-making. next February, plan to attend the SCI Convention
on February 22-25, 2023 in Nashville,
Sign now to urge Brussels’ policymakers to work Tennessee. We’re looking forward to having a
with hunters not against! great time in Music City.
#SIGNFORHUNTING
EUROPEAN HUNTERS’ CAMPAIGN
Sign Now!
For the past couple of years, international hunting
has been hamstrung by everything from
quarantines to interrupted air travel. This is the
time to break out and begin the trip back to
“normalcy,” whatever that means to each
member. We hunters are at our best when we are
hunting and when we are fighting anti-hunters.
This means that now is the time to be out Nils-Ole Stubberud
hunting, to be planning a hunt, or both. - 3 - President Royal Nordic Chapter
