SCI AT THE CITES CONFERENCE: WORKING FOR YOU

Follow SCI and SCIF's efforts at CoP15 at their blog: sci-scif-cites.blogspot.com

2,000 people are meeting from March 12-25 in Doha, Qatar, to make decisions about wildlife, some of which are critical to the future of hunting and conservation. This is the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP 15) to CITES. There are 175 countries that are Parties to CITES, making this one of the largest conservation treaties in the world." Click here for an explanation of how it works.

SCI and SCIF have sent off delegations to represent the interest of hunter-conservationists.  The delegations will be filing reports on this site throughout the Convention.  Follow the action ring-side as your delegations work for your interests.

The SCI and SCIF delegations will argue for the protection of the rights of the hunter and the importance of sport hunting as a conservation tool.  They will urge the Parties, who are represented by their government delegations, to make their decisions based on sound science, not on politics driven by green emotions.  Lots of green organizations will also be there.  Many of them are dedicated to ending sport hunting any way they can, even though they cloak their arguments in the language of conservation. 

The delegations will be headed by John Monson, a Past President of SCI and SCIF.  The current SCI/SCIF President, Dr. Larry Rudolph, will be in attendance for part of the meeting, as will SCI/SCIF Vice President (and Chairman of the SCIF Conservation Committee), Joseph Hosmer.  Board members Abigail Day, Al Maki and Thomas Saldias, will bring their experience and expertise to bear.  They are supported by Matt Eckert, Manager of Conservation Programs for SCIF, Rick Parsons, former Director of Governmental Affairs and Conservation (and long-time CITES expert), and George Pangeti, SCIF’s Africa Program Coordinator (and former Deputy Director, Parks and Wildlife, Zimbabwe). In addition, your delegations will be teaming up with FACE, the influential Federation of European Hunting Assocations, represented by Yves LeCocq and Johan Svalby.

Click here to see the voting guide prepared by SCI and SCIF for delegates from the countries attending.  It covers all proposals, including those not relating to game animals, to ensure it stays in the voters’ hands throughout. We are grateful to Species Management Specialists (SMS) for providing the information on non-game species. The key species proposals for hunters are:

Bobcat – Proposal 2

Polar bear – Proposal 3

Elephants in Tanzania – Proposal 4

Elephants in Zambia – Proposal 5

Elephant moratorium – Proposal 6

We will be carefully watching all 42 proposals to put species on the international endangered species list (or to remove some species), along with 67 other issues that may affect hunters. 

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