First time in Canada for Grand Safari with well known Canadian professionnal hunter and Outfitter Michel Langlois from Grand Chelem Aventure.

Come and visit us on our booth 719 to discover all our different safari options.

Thanks to all the visitors this week-end a the Yankee Classic, it was nice to see you guys again, always a great pleasure to come to VT.

Good to hear that you enjoyed the Extreme Outer Limits African episodes done with us in South Africa.

We’ll soon have the great pleasure to see some of you over in South Africa, for all the others, let’s stay in touch until next year, same time same place!

Left our warm South African swimming pool for the Yankee Classic in Vermont. Crisp weather today here but not too much snow this year. Thanks to all of you for your visit on booth 213 where we have the first 3 episodes of Extreme Outer Limits playing on our big screen, as currently seen on the Sportman’s Channel.

Come and check our 2012 brochure, we’ll be here the whole week-end.

Grand Safari will attend the following shows in the Us and Canada in 2012:

Yankee Sportsman’s Classic
20th Annual  January 20 – 22 2012 – Champlain Valley Expo, Essex Jct., VT – Booth # 213

Le Salon National de la Pourvoirie
26 − 29 Jan 2012 – Montréal, CANADA  - Booth # 719

Eastern Sports & Outdoor show
4-12 Feb 2012 – Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex – Harrisburg, PA – Booth # 6429

The Springfield Sportsmen’s show
23-26 Feb 2012 – Big E West Springfield, MA – Booth # 213

GRAND SAFARI is on US TV!

Last stalk of the 2011 season this last week-end, and a very nice Zebra for my friend Jürgen. That was Tika’s first encounter with blood (new long legged Jack Russel), under Domino’s supervision (well, I am sure you all know Domino by now …), she did good and has lots to learn still… Read the rest of this entry »

A lot has been said lately about intensive rhino poaching in South Africa. A lot, but still not enough and we all have to contribute towards stopping poachers killing our assets. Already over 400 rhinos have officially been poached this year, possibly a lot more with all the carcasses not found yet. Poaching is the worst thing a hunter has to fight. I guess I don’t have to mention here that it is mostly the hunters being really concerned about poaching activities. It is very easy to combine hunting and poaching, to blame the whole word and to do nothing. For us, fighting this curse is an every day job. Without hunters, species in South Africa like bontebok, black and white rhinos and much more would have probably disappeared.
It boils down to a very simple fact. A game reserve, whether into photographic safaris or hunting, will very seldom invest huge amount of money to introduce or re-introduce white rhinoceros. They will only do so if the species has a financial value. Surplus will be hunted or sold on auction (often to other reserves managed through hunting). The day that value disappears, the specie will be in great danger. Only the wealthiest game reserves would then be able to keep rhinoceros with no need to get a return on their investment. Others won’t be able to afford that financial risk.
Rhino hunting in South Africa has always been strict, it is now even more with new rules and regulations in place, double-checking all aspects of the legitimacy of the hunt. This is a good thing.

Harvesting a rhino in South Africa contributes greatly to protect the whole rhino population in the country. Read the rest of this entry »

I lost a friend this week-end, a faithful companion for so many years. Our 15 year journey that took us across South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique just came to an end.

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