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Safari Club International - Conservation Activities

4. STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS

Annually, SCI awards stipends to outstanding undergraduates who are majoring in natural resource management. Scholarship payments were made to:

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5. ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION TEACHERS WORKSHOP GRANTS Annually, SCI awards stipends to outstanding undergraduates who are majoring in natural resource management. Scholarship payments were made to: --Detroit Chapter of SCI, Michigan

--St. Louis Chapter, Missouri

--Pennsylvania Chapters

Lehigh Valley.
Pittsburgh

Total

$1,000

$1,000

$1,000

$1.000

$4,000

6. MATCHING GRANTS TO SCI CHAPTERS FOR CONSERVATION PROGRAMS

Annually, SCI awards matching grants to domestic and foreign chapters which are involved themselves in funding wildlife research and management projects. Grants were made as follows:

--Leigh Valley, Pennsylvania River Otter Research

--Minnesota, Fishing Program Development, Black Bear Research

--W. Central, NY, Duck Nesting Program

$2,500

-$2,500

--Michigan, "Tracks" Educational Magazine Program

$2,500

$2,500

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--East Ohio, NW Pennsylvania, Pickard Creek Wildlife Area Devel..

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Chapters have many more projects in the conservation arena. Each is

required to have one conservation project per annum and most have many more, totaling hundreds of projects per annum.

Safari Club International - Conservation Activities

7. GRANTS TO AID THE DEVELOPMENT OF WILDLIFE ASSOCIATIONS SCI, through its funding has encouraged the development and support of regional and national wildlife associations. During the year, it made general operating grants to:

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As part of SCI's public education mission, it has helped to underwrite an international natural resource conference this past year. Congress co-contributors include US Forest Service, Boone and Crockett Club, The Wildlife Society (USA), IUCN and other Non-Governmental Organizations.

International Congress on Sustainable Use in Costa Rica
African Trust Harrare

The Wildlife Society - Albuquerque

$10,000

$ 3,000
$ 5,000

II. MAJOR INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM ACTIVITIES

International program activities are funded by donations and chapter contributions. SCI involvement in six international activities highlight major areas of emphasis.

1. SCI HIRES CONSERVATION DIRECTOR AND A RESOURCE ECOLOGIST

Dr. William I. Morrill, a Certified Wildlife Biologist with a Ph.D. in ecological planning was hired 1 January 1993 after an exhaustive global search. Dr. Morrill's background is in sustainable use and developing outdoor recreation. He has been involved in conservation on the local, national and international level for 20 years. Dr. Morrill will develop and direct conservation projects for SCI.

SCI hired Andre DeGeorge in August of 1994 as a Resource Ecologist. Mr. DeGeorge has worked with the international donor agency, USAID, as well as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Peace Corps. Andre speaks fluent French and has spent over a decade in Africa as a problem analyst for AID. His experience with problems and solutions in Africa will serve SCI well.

Safari Club International - Conservation Activities

2. SCIENTIFIC STUDIES, CONSERVATION WORKSHOPS, MEETINGS SCI contributed to several international scientific research projects. Both were undertaken as part of a team effort to address timely conservation issues. SCI supports programs that move resource management towards sustainability, including various appropriate uses. SCI sent large contingencies to CITES and Biodiversity.

IUCN, funded Saiga Antelope Study, Russia

$7,000

Argali Population Study by Dr. Raul Valdez, Kyrgyzstan, and
Mongolia. Co-Sponsored with Mongol-An

$7,500

Sponsored Conservation Workshop for Ethiopia Wildlife Department
Organization (& Sent Representatives)

$6,500

Co-Sponsored Hunting Workshop in Tanzania with African

Wildlife Foundation/Tanzania Wildlife Department_

$5,000

Cameroon Ministry of Forestry and Professional Hunters_

Wildlife Foundation/Tanzania Wildlife Department.

A seven person team to CITES

A four person team to Biodiversity.

A Three person team to the Cameroon Elephant Workshop $ 5.000

$5.000

$7.500

$12.000

$9.000

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3. ENDANGERED SPECIES - RHINOS

SCI sent representatives to both ('92 and '93) UNEP Rhino Conferences in Nairobi, Kenya. SCI has provided a written bill for the conservation of the world's rhinos to members of the US Congress which eventually became the Rhino and Tiger Conservation Act of 1994. .

4. FORMER SOVIET STATES CONSERVATION PROGRAM

An SCI representative was part of a US delegation to Russia and other former Soviet States to evaluate their conservation program.

5. SPECIES RESEARCH/MANAGEMENT

SCI is developing hunter questionnaires on the various species taken overseas in cooperation with and to be distributed with permits by USFWS to gather management information, heretofore unattainable.

6. FUNDED PLANNING DOCUMENT FOR CONSERVATION STRATEGY SCI funded a contractor to evaluate global funding strategy for SCI. The report was used to develop a plan including funding priorities, sources, and potential projects for SCI over the next five years.

7. SCI FUNDS COUNTRY REPRESENTATIVES TO WORLD'S GREATEST HUNTING CONVENTION

SCI funded representatives from Cameroon, Kyrgyzia, Gabon, Congo, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and Zambia to attend the SCI Convention in Las Vegas this year.

$ 30,000

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III PROJECTS AND PROPOSALS IN 1994-95
(In Progress as of 1 Jan. 95)

SCI has initiated 11 projects and activities in the international conservation field by mid- SCI Fiscal Year. The intent is to complete or fund each of the projects. Projects and proposals are funded by donations, chapter contributions, and external funding. External funding sources are expected to be, but not limited to the African Elephant Conservation Fund, USAID, the Mongolian Government, Republic of Tanzania, World Wildlife Fund for Nature, Zimbabwe Trust, Zimbabwe Wildlife Department, and International Professional Hunters Association.

1. FUNDING OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENT

SCI has funded a wildlife student at the University of Dar es Salaam for a higher degree in wildlife management and administration. The student will return to become a greater asset to his Country's wildlife program. Tanzania was the first candidate for this SCI funded project.

$ 12,000

2. TANZANIA GAME SCOUT/QUOTA SETTING PROJECT SCI developed a project to utilize Tanzanian game scouts to collect management information. This project was developed in cooperation with the Tanzania Department of Wildlife and the African Wildlife Foundation. The project is currently being implemented in Tanzania.

3. ZIMBABWE COMMUNAL QUOTA SETTING PROJECT

$124,000

The community based, sustainable use Zimbabwe CAMPFIRE Program currently has quotas for harvest of game set by the Zimbabwe Department of Wildlife. The goal of CAMPFIRE is to make communities self-sufficient and this includes empowering the communities to set their own quotas. A two year project in conjunction with Zimbabwe Trust, World Wildlife Fund for Nature, and the Department is underway with funding obtained by SCI.

4. DEDICATED ARGALI FUND

$154,000

SCI, in conjunction with Safari Outfitters, the Mongolian Government, the Professional Hunting Organization in Mongolia, and the US Fish and wildlife Service, promote conservation of the Mongolian argali. The initiation of the fund was a result of an $85,000 hunt for Altai argali and ibex auctioned at SCI in Las Vegas.

$ for Argali Conservation

5. SUPPORTED KYRGYZIA ARGALI CONSERVATION

$50,000

SCI obtained a donated Marco Polo argali and ibex hunt from Kyrgyzia in cooperation with Greenfield of Russia, with 90% of the proceeds dedicated to argali conservation in Kyrgyzia.

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6. FUNDING BACKGROUND RESEARCH ON MOZAMBIQUE SCI has funded a Harvard University Graduate Student to analyze conservation needs and opportunities in Mozambique. The study will be completed in June, 1994.

Project Total

7. FUNDING BACKGROUND RESEARCH ON TANZANIA

$ 1,000

SCI has funded a Harvard University Graduate Student to analyze conservation needs and opportunities for hunting in Cameroon. The study will be completed in June, 1995.

Project Total

8. REPLENISHING DEPLETED AREAS IN ZAMBIA

$ 1,000

SCI has a commitment from an independent donor to help rehabilitate depleted Game Management Areas in Zambia. This project is in close cooperation with the Wildlife Department, other donors, NGO's and the Ministry. This is predicted to be a 4 year program involving several Zambia GMA's.

Project Total

$ 2,000,000 8. FUNDING A CONSULTANCY TO DEVELOP HUNTING IN MALAWI SCI has a commitment from the European Community to fund a consultancy to evaluate the feasibility and plan a tourist safari hunting industry in Malawi.

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9. ANALYZING BROWN BEAR HUNTING IN KAMCHATKA
SCI is sending Dr. Bill Morrill to Kamchatka to analyze the ongoing
management and sustainable use of Brown Bears.

10. SURVEYING THE URIAL

Project Total

$ 6,000

SCI along with CIC is fielding a joint Russian/American Team of biologists to evaluate the condition of the transcaspian urial.

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11. PRESENTATION AT THE BC GUIDES AND OUTFITTERS MEETING SCI is sending a team to a meeting to be held 6 April in British Columbia to discuss brown bear hunting.

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