SCI Foundation Joins the Wild Harvest Initiative

By Justin Stakes

Tucson, AZ -(AmmoLand.com)- Safari Club International Foundation (SCI Foundation) has recently partnered with Conservation Visions Inc. and committed to supporting the ongoing Wild Harvest Initiative (WHI).

The initiative is a collaborative effort among the hunting and wildlife conservation community to estimate the nutritional and economic value of recreational wild protein harvest across all of North America.

The WHI is the first attempt to examine wild protein on such an immense scale. The multi-year study is being conducted by Dr. Shane Mahoney, President and CEO of Conservation Visions Inc., in partnership with wildlife agencies and a large NGO network.

“Understanding the scale of personal noncommercial harvest by hunters and anglers has huge implications for conservation,” says Mahoney. “Our initiative is intimately connected to food security, wildlife management, cultural traditions, human health, agriculture, and land use policy.”

In addition to the challenge of calculating total biomass of wild protein and its value in the United States and Canada, the initiative is looking at the ecological and financial costs of replacing that food source. The WHI seeks to reframe the debate over the modern relevance of hunting and fishing by …Read the Rest

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