“We are very excited to hold the first meeting of the Wild Harvest Initiative® Alliance in August of this year, in St. John’s, Newfoundland, and have been delighted with partner response and planned attendance to date. We plan to launch the new Wild Harvest Initiative® website platform at that meeting. While our partnered program is extraordinarily ambitious, our continued progress is a clear sign of our capacity to succeed. We very likely now have the largest wildlife recreational harvest data base in the world and every day new research indicates the relevance of food harvesting as a critical factor in securing support for hunting worldwide. I remain fully confident confidant that our efforts will contribute to a normalizing of hunting and angling, to a renewed and escalated benefits assessment of wildlife’s value to modern society, to increased efforts for conservation, and to encouraging hunter and angler recruitment, retention and reactivation. Your partnership and support of Conservation Visions and the Wild Harvest Initiative® remain vital to its success and, as always, are tremendously appreciated. I look forward to welcoming you to Newfoundland!” ~ Shane Mahoney