SCI Announces Fauna & Flora Customhouse as 2012 Corporate Sponsor
Safari Club International 01.10.12
Safari Club International (SCI) today announced that Fauna & Flora Customhouse Brokerage has renewed their corporate sponsorship for 2012. Fauna & Flora will be featured sponsor at the 40th Annual SCI Hunters’ Convention at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, NV.
“Every year the international hunting community joins Safari Club International to celebrate our sport,” said Fauna & Flora CEO John Meehan. “The members of SCI’s are some of our best customers. We continue to appreciate their business and look forward to joining so many at Convention in February.”
“SCI is proud to have Fauna & Flora again as a partner in 2012,” said SCI President Kevin Anderson. “Our corporate sponsors and the entire SCI membership support the diligent advocacy efforts of SCI in Washington, DC and around the world. We greatly appreciate Fauna & Flora’s continued support.”
“Fauna & Flora has served the hunting community for decades to ensure the ultimate hunting experience can be cherished forever by navigating the trophy importation process. SCI has also dedicated its mission to ensure hunting will continue for generations. Together our passions will keep our hunting heritage alive,” concluded SCI Chief Communications Officer Larry Rudolph.
Fauna and Flora Custom House Brokers (http://www.faunaandflora.com/trophies/) will be at SCI’s 40th Annual Hunters’ Convention at booth #746.
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.
