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Houston Safari Club (HSC) would like to take the opportunity to comment on HBO’s recently-aired feature on the status of the African elephant. The segment aired on “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel”, November 24, 2015. The piece focused on the declining numbers of African elephants. HSC applauds the investigative work of HBO’s journalists in publicizing international poaching issues facing elephants today and those brave individuals fighting great odds to protect the elephant from poachers. HSC absolutely disagrees that legal, regulated, ethical hunting should be linked with poaching, as a primary reason for the elephant’s declining numbers.

As part of the markup of S. 556, the Bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act of 2015, The Senate Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) Committee passed permanent FLTFA reauthorization last week. HSC along with seventy-one other conservation groups signed a letter in support of FLTFA reauthorization, which was sent to Senate Leadership and the Senate ENR Committee.

On the weekend of October 17-18, Houston Safari Club (HSC) and the Texas Game Warden Association (TGWA) sponsored a youth bow hunt in Maverick County. First Point Bowhunting donated their 5,200 acre ranch for the hunt, with Game Wardens Bobby Kana and Vu Nguyen of Galveston County present to host and educate kids on the importance of proper harvesting and processing of game animals.

Conservation Force, Dallas Safari Club, Houston Safari Club, the CAMPFIRE Association, the Tanzania Hunting Operators Association (TAHOA), and Corey Knowlton filed suit today against Delta Air Lines, Inc. to compel an end to Delta’s illegal embargo on transport of hunting trophies of the “Big Five” (lion, leopard, elephant, rhino, and buffalo) from Africa. The plaintiffs allege the embargo on transport of a specific class of non-dangerous cargo violates Delta’s duty as a common carrier not to discriminate against passengers or cargo.

Houston Safari Club (HSC) has provided a grant to support the El Carmen Project’s restoration of sustainable populations of mule deer to an area in northern Coahuila, Mexico and the southern Trans-Pecos Region of western Texas.