Gun Trade World - April 2023

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Winchester awarded US Army contract
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Winchester works with key groups like
the National Shooting Sports Foundation
on a variety of topics important to our
industry, including training and education,
and on specific programs such as Gun
Owners Care and Project ChildSafe.
Winchester will continue to support
programs, organizations and individuals
who promote hunting and shooting sports
activities in a positive and responsible
environment. Any use of firearms by youth
participants should be done under the
direct supervision of a parent, guardian or
other responsible adult.
About Gun Owners Care
Gun owners care. You care about safety.
You care about preventing unauthorised
access to firearms. You care about
bettering your community, helping those
in need, and conserving wildlife and wild
places for generations to come. It’s time
for gun owners to tell their stories and
to show how they’re making a difference.
NSSF, the trade association for the
firearms industry, has established the
Gun Owners Care campaign to unite gun
owners and the firearms industry in this
common cause.
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LIFE WILD WOLF: Tackling situaTIOns of wildlife
approaching urban and peri-urban areas
As project partners,
the Croatian Hunting
Association and FACE,
recently attended the kick-off
meeting of the LIFE WILD
WOLF project “Concrete
actions for maintaining
wolves wild in anthropogenic
landscapes of Europe”.
The project, co-funded
within the EU LIFE
programme, enjoys a
multidisciplinary team of
18 partners, including seven
Universities or research
institutions, national and
local management authorities,
and NGOs from the
environmental and hunting
areas of interest from nine
EU countries with the Italian
Institute of Applied Ecology
(IEA) being the coordinating
beneficiary.
The project’s objective is
to develop a solid technical
baseline, developing
operating protocols that will
be tested and assessed for
efficacy and efficiency. The
ultimate goal is to provide
a significant contribution
to the most adequate
management of critical
situations where wildlife
approach humans in urban
and peri-urban areas.
The project will be
implemented in rural,
urban, and peri-urban
areas of eight EU countries
Croatia, Germany, Greece,
Italy, Portugal, The Czech
Republic, Slovenia and
Sweden, involving seven out
of the nine European wolf
populations. The project will
last almost five years with
a total budget of 7,028,148
euros (EU contribution:
5,265,454 euros). Wildlife
presence close to human
settlements is a growing
phenomenon in many EU
countries and often leads to
critical situations of perceived
or real danger. Few EU
countries are prepared to
tackle such situations with
clear and tested protocols.
The LIFE WILD WOLF
project aims at developing
and testing such protocols
based on the largest possible
number of cases.
During the project
duration, FACE will focus
on analysing and tackling the
issue of wolf-dog interactions
with a special focus on wolf
attacks on hunting dogs.
Hunting of ungulates is in
many countries conducted
using hunting dogs that are
of high economic, emotional,
and social value. Reports of
hunting dogs killed by wolves
are increasing in Europe and
hunters will be involved in
the project to implement
tools for protecting their
dogs. FACE will also
facilitate direct involvement
of hunters from the project
areas where no hunting
association is a project
beneficiary and promote best
practices developed.
www.face.eu
About
FACE is the European
Federation for Hunting and
Conservation. Established
in 1977, FACE represents
the interests of Europe’s
seven million hunters as an
international non-profitmaking
nongovernmental
organisation. FACE is
made up of national
hunters’ associations from
37 European countries
including the EU-28. FACE
is supported by seven
associate members and
is based in Brussels. FACE
upholds the principle of
sustainable use and has
been a member of the
International Union for the
Conservation of Nature
(IUCN) since 1987. FACE
works with its partners on
a range of hunting-related
matters from international
conservation agreements to
local implementation issues
with the aim of sustaining
hunting across Europe.
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