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Urge candidates and parties to support the FACE Election Manifesto! The upcoming European elections are of great importance to Europe’s 7 million hunters. The decisions taken in Brussels for the next five years will have a decisive impact on the direction that Member States take with regards to the environment and land use. Decisions in Brussels can have major effects on hunting and conservation throughout Europe....

24 May, 2019 /

FACE has consistently promoted the value of sustainable hunting as a management tool for large carnivores in Europe. Although some like to advocate for total protection, which typically drives conflict at the local level, the case for sustainable hunting and its role in improving coexistence was supported by the Opinion of the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the EU. ...

24 May, 2019 /

FACE has consistently promoted the value of sustainable hunting as a management tool for large carnivores in Europe. Although some like to advocate for total protection, which typically drives conflict at the local level, the case for sustainable hunting and its role in improving coexistence was supported by the Opinion of the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the EU. ...

23 May, 2019 /

FACE has consistently promoted the value of sustainable hunting as a management tool for large carnivores in Europe. Although some like to advocate for total protection, which typically drives conflict at the local level, the case for sustainable hunting and its role in improving coexistence was supported by the Opinion of the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the EU. ...

23 May, 2019 /

FACE has consistently promoted the value of sustainable hunting as a management tool for large carnivores in Europe. Although some like to advocate for total protection, which typically drives conflict at the local level, the case for sustainable hunting and its role in improving coexistence was supported by the Opinion of the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the EU. ...

10 May, 2019 /

FACE has consistently promoted the value of sustainable hunting as a management tool for large carnivores in Europe. Although some like to advocate for total protection, which typically drives conflict at the local level, the case for sustainable hunting and its role in improving coexistence was supported by the Opinion of the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the EU. ...

09 May, 2019 /

The future of European and African waterbird conservation was decided this week (4-8 December 2018) in Durban, South Africa. 78 parties attended the 7th Meeting of Parties (MoP) of the African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbird Agreement (AEWA) decided on several important developments for waterbird conservation and management...

18 April, 2019 /

On 19 March, MEP Karl-Heinz Florenz celebrated 30 years of his long and successful political career as a Member of the European Parliament. Karl-Heinz Florenz was elected for the first time in 1989 and has played a key role as a member of the European Parliament's Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. He worked on many environment-related dossiers relating to biodiversity, recycling, waste management, circular economy, sustainable hunting as well as climate change and rural development. FACE President Torbjörn...

22 March, 2019 /

The future of European and African waterbird conservation was decided this week (4-8 December 2018) in Durban, South Africa. 78 parties attended the 7th Meeting of Parties (MoP) of the African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbird Agreement (AEWA) decided on several important developments for waterbird conservation and management...

12 March, 2019 /

Register now for the conference "Managing predators for meadow birds", hosted by MEP Bendt Bendtsen and organised in cooperation with FACE - European Federation for Hunting and Conservation. [button size='big' style='' text='REGISTER NOW FOR THE CONFERENCE' icon='fa-arrow-right' icon_color='' link='https://conference.face.eu' target='_blank' color='#ffffff' hover_color='' border_color='#005000' hover_border_color='#ff7900' background_color='#005000' hover_background_color='#ff7900' font_style='' font_weight='' text_align='center' margin=''] [vc_separator type='transparent' position='center' color='' thickness='' up='8' down=''] This conference will discuss predator management as a tool to conserve vulnerable species. It will focus on population declines of meadow (wading) birds, which are often...

22 February, 2019 /

The future of European and African waterbird conservation was decided this week (4-8 December 2018) in Durban, South Africa. 78 parties attended the 7th Meeting of Parties (MoP) of the African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbird Agreement (AEWA) decided on several important developments for waterbird conservation and management...

22 February, 2019 /

FACE is pleased to announce its new partnership with SimWay, a fast-growing software company based in Stockholm and specialised in the development of real-time 3D applications for hunting and sport simulators.

SimWay launched SimWayHUNT Pro, the world’s leading hunting and shooting simulator for professional training and education of new generations of hunters. The SimWay Team supports FACE by providing its hunting simulator for in-house training and communication purposes....

05 February, 2019 /

FACE, the European Federation for Hunting and Conservation, is delighted to invite you to the high-level conference “Preparing European Hunters to Eradicate African Swine Fever”, organised jointly with the European Commission. The conference will take place during the “Jagd und Hund” exhibition in Dortmund, Germany, from 10:00-17:00 on 30 January 2019 at the Congress Centre Westfalenhallen (Silbersaal, Rheinlanddamm 200, 44139 Dortmund). Please register at the latest 22 January 2019. [button size='big' style='' text='REGISTER NOW FOR THE CONFERENCE' icon='fa-arrow-right' icon_color='' link='http://conference.face.eu/' target='_blank' color='#ffffff' hover_color=''...

14 January, 2019 /

The publication, which covers January 2018 – December 2018, outlines the background and key activities of FACE’s working areas: nature conservation, wildlife conservation, International agreements, animal welfare & health, firearms & ammunition, and hunting methods & culture. [button size='big' style='' text='DOWNLOAD ANNUAL REPORT - EN' icon_color='' link='https://www.face.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/annualreport_2018.pdf' target='_blank' color='#ffffff' hover_color='' border_color='#005000' hover_border_color='#ff7900' background_color='#005000' hover_background_color='#ff7900' font_style='' font_weight='' text_align='center' margin='']...

01 December, 2018 /

CONFERENCE IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, BRUSSELS. Hunting in the European year of cultural heritage "The challenges of today and tomorrow". Wednesday 28 November, 17:00 - 19:00. Room PHS070050. Interpretation: EN, FR, DE, IT. Hosted by MEPs: Giancarlo SCOTTÀ, Jacques COLOMBIER, Georg MAYER, Franz OBERMAYR....

10 November, 2018 /

WILD (wildlife information system of Germany) is a pioneer project that covers 13 million hectares and can be seen as the biggest monitoring program for German wildlife. It has been initiated in 2000 by the German hunting association and it is based on year-round recordings of game species by honorary working hunters using scientific methods. Once a year, the summary of the monitoring results gets published in the WILD-report. LEARN MORE ABOUT THE PROJECT ON THE BIODIVERSITY MANIFESTO WEBSITE ...

09 November, 2018 /
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