SCI and CINEGETICA Join Forces: New Hunting Show in Madrid
Safari Club International 01.30.13
During past years, there were two competing hunt shows in Madrid, Spain: Venatoria and FICAAR/SCI. Upon initiative by SCI’s Regional Representative, Norbert Ullmann, and the President of the Royal Spanish Hunters Federation, Andrés Gutierrez Lara, the two competitors formed a single company and will organize the one, and only, international hunt show on the Iberian Peninsula: CINEGETICA.
The first edition of CINEGETICA/SCI will be from February 28th through March 3rd, 2013 at the IFEMA Show Grounds in Madrid.
The signature ceremony of the Cooperation Agreement between SCI and CINEGETICA was held end of October 2012 and the photo shows the signatories of the Agreement, from left to right: Marcos Quintas Melero, CEO Cega Multimedia and Expo-Cinegetica; Fernando Saiz, partner of Expo-Cinegetica; Marquis de Laserna, partner of Expo-Cinegetica; Raul Alfonso, Executive Vice President of the Royal Spanish Hunters Federation; Alberto Nuñez de Seoane, junior partner of Cega Multimedia and Chairman of the Board of Expo-Cinegetica; Dr. Marciál Francisco Gómez Sequeira, majority owner of Cega Multimedia and SCI Honourary International Director; Andrés Gutierrez Lára, President of the Royal Spanish Hunters Federation; and Norbert Ullmann, SCI Regional Representative Europe.
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.
