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Color Phases and Color Variants in Game Animals: What you need to know

Discover the fascinating world of color phase animals in North America and Africa, from black bears to golden wildebeest. Explore their origins, value, and conservation.

Hunting Regulations Compared: The USA versus Africa

Africa / Hunting is Conservation

Hunting regulations and approaches to wildlife management compared: the USA, South Africa, and other African countries.

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The Legend of St Hubert: From opponent of hunting to symbol of European hunting tradition

Hunting History / Europe / Hunting is Conservation

St. Hubertus is honored as a patron of hunters, and as founder of sustainable hunting, although the historic Bishop of Liege was an opponent of the chase. The Legend of Hubertus and its influence on European hunting tradition that continues to modern times, all the way to cult TV shows.

Kitzrettung: How German Hunters Save Fawns from Mowers

Europe / Hunting is Conservation

Roe deer does leave their fawns hidden in the grass fields and meadows, and farmers during hay-cutting season, against their will, kill dozens of them. To prevent those deaths, German farmers and hunters use a number of methods, known as “Kitzrettung” (“Save-a-Fawn”).

Wolf in Western Europe: Is There a Place for the Predator

BookYourHunt / Europe / Hunting is Conservation

Generally, the majority of the mostly urban European population is enthusiastic about the wolf. Among the anthropogenic and raffinate European environment, the wolf represents some fresh, primordial, savage wilderness: The Return of True Nature. But rural population, obviously, is not amused.

Why are Eastern Turkey Numbers Declining (and can hunters do anything about it)?

BookYourHunt / Hunting is Conservation

The populations of the Eastern Turkey are on the decline across most of its range. Admittedly, this is nothing like

Africa’s Conservation Model Under Threat

Africa / Hunting is Conservation

The West needs to heed the voices of Africans calling for a sound understanding of Africa’s sustainable utilisation conservation policies and look beyond the emotional rhetoric before it is too late.

Hunting as a Wildlife Management Tool. By Cleve Cheney

Africa / Hunting is Conservation

There are very few natural habitats left in the world big enough to allow nature to regulate wildlife populations without any intervention from man. Even South Africa’s biggest national parks are too small to allow for this to happen. Smaller parks and private conservation areas may also not be afforded the luxury of a laissez-faire (“hands off – let nature take its course”) management approach.

The process of measurement of a hunting trophy

Beat a Ban: Is 3D printing an option for trophy import restrictions?

Africa / BookYourHunt / Hunting is Conservation

by Peter Ruddle At the outset let it be stated that BookYourHunt.com supports the legal, responsible, sustainable utilisation of wildlife

A hunter and a scull of an antelope dead of natural courses

Sell the Experience: How to Take the Hunting Industry to the XXII Century

Africa / BookYourHunt / Hunting is Conservation

For years if not decades the hunting industry in many countries, especially in Africa, relied on the so-called “trophy hunting”.

Hunting Associations of South Africa

Africa / BookYourHunt / Hunting is Conservation

The majority of South African Professional Hunters belong to one or more of three main hunting associations operating in South Africa. Many of these Professional Hunters are also members of Wild Ranching South Africa which is not a hunting association but plays a very important role supporting role to this industry.

What We Do In Africa

Africa / BookYourHunt / Hunting is Conservation

What does the hunting industry do to Africa? Protecting species and habitats, generating income, creating jobs, and even fighting climate change. That’s what we do.