SCI Builds Hunter Advocates Through Improved Communication
Safari Club International 07.24.12
Safari Club International (SCI) has improved the news blog to include hunting adventures, advocacy affecting all hunters, and SCI Foundation wildlife conservation. Improving communications will ensure SCI Members are always up to date on current events, and to reach hunters all over the world with the very latest hunting, conservation, advocacy and hunting-related information.
“This enhancement is an integral part of an overarching, global communications effort by SCI to allow more people worldwide to understand and appreciate the great things being done by SCI and its members,” said John Whipple, SCI President. “In the near future, we plan to launch a series of new online tools so the world can be aware of our many critical mission programs.
Learn more about SCI Hunter Advocacy at http://FirstForHunters.wordpress.com;
Learn about hunting from around the world: http://HuntForever.wordpress.com;
Learn about sustainable wildlife conservation: http://FirstForWildlife.wordpress.com;
“SCI has been the leader in protecting the freedom to hunt for the past four decades. With these new communication abilities, SCI is positioned to take hunting advocacy and hunter issues to higher levels than ever before,” Whipple concluded.
For more information on SCI, please go to the website today: www.SafariClub.org. If you want to send a direct message to your member of congress, simply click on Contact your Congressman button to become an advocate for our hunting heritage.
Protecting hunters’ rights and promoting wildlife conservation, SCI’s two areas of focus, historically has been the interest of hundreds of individuals long before SCI was established. But how did SCI as an organization begin?
Forty years ago, there were many safari clubs across the country made up of local, unaffiliated groups of hunters. One such was Safari Club of Los Angeles, which was formed in April 1971 by forty-seven individuals. In early 1972, an out-of-towner from a similar club in Chicago attended one of the monthly Wednesday night meetings, and it was decided that the L.A. club should attempt to combine with the one in Chicago to make it an affiliated chapter. The founder of Safari Club of Los Angeles, C.J. McElroy, went to the Windy City and instituted the new chapter.
Eleven months after the formation of Safari Club of Los Angeles, on March 9, 1972, the name was changed officially to Safari Club International. SCI continued to reach out to other independent safari clubs throughout the United States in an effort to combine them into a single overall organization.
Today, interest in SCI’s two primary missions has grown a worldwide network. Subsequent involvement and promotion of these missions is rooted in each of our 55,000 members, supported through each of our 190 membership chapters found across the globe, and put into action by government representatives and personnel both nationally and internationally.
In this way, we can encourage an appreciation for nature and wildlife so that conservation efforts remain strong, while also fighting to protect our rich hunting heritage. Big changes can be achieved through the endeavors of many who are united in a mission – the mission of Safari Club International.
