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Conservation Force.

Conservation Force is one of the world's top hunting activist organization. By kind permission, the information provided below is taken from Conservation Force's website. For more information about Conservation Force please visit their website at www.conservationforce.org

Conservation Force.

Conservation Force is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable public foundation. It is an international organization with partners worldwide. Its exempt purposes are wildlife conservation, education, research and serving the greater public good. It serves the public through support and development of conservation infrastructure locally, nationally and internationally. It is a comprehensive organization that functions as a worldwide communications center and information source, monitor, advisory think tank and pro-active advocate for its exempt conservation purposes.

The aim is to aid, support and complement other organizations (a consortium of approximately 100 organizations) rather than compete, thus to be a positive addition to the overall capacity of the conservation community. It supports and is supported by a federation of partnering organizations from the International Foundation for the Conservation of Wildlife (IGF) in Paris to the Dallas Ecological Foundation in Texas.The Conservation Value of Tourist Safari Hunting in the last quarter of the 20th Century, a new conservation tool arose from regulated sport hunting.

The safari hunting industry began providing new conservation opportunities. Safari hunters were some of the first ecotourists. Their contribution has become world renown through programs such as CAMPFIRE, the Chobe Enclave Conservation Trust, BOP Parks, etc. Tourist safari hunting is the most efficient, effective, self-funding tool to conserve wildlife, promote biodiversity and to provide immediate benefits to rural people in remote areas.

IT PROVIDES IMMEDIATE TANGIBLE BENEFITS TO RURAL PEOPLE

  • Is a source of high pay employment providing dignity and self-determination;

  • Is a source of basic public services (medicine, bore holes, etc.) where governments can't otherwise provide;

  • Stimulates secondary industries and employment while preserving traditional culture.

  • Converts wildlife from a liability to an asset-from being intolerable pests and nuisances to "game animal" status;

  • Converts wildlife habitat to a higher revenue producing land use; Promotes bottom up development and human well-being; Is a major source of revenue wherever it exists;

  • Has the potential to generate more income for land owners from a given number of wild animals than wildlife cropping, ranching and viewing tourism;

  • Provides the highest revenue per tourist of any ecotourism activity;

  • Often occurs in remote areas where no other means are available to improve human well-being and the quality and duration of human life;

  • Can occur even where other land uses are impractical or impossible.

IT PROVIDES THE HIGHEST LEVEL CONSERVATION BENEFITS

  • Gives animals their highest lawful, positive, economic value in the remote bush;

  • Reduces poaching through physical presence, reporting, funding and by creating an atmosphere of local intolerance;

  • Creates wildlife and habitat conservation incentives locally and nationally;

  • Provides badly needed funding, locally and nationally;

  • Stimulates management directed at supporting the population until the age it is of trophy quality;

  • Provides means of having game scouts in remote locations at no cost to governing authorities;

  • Provides a primary rationale for conservation.

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