Dallas Safari Club

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Wilderness, Sports, Sports:wilderness, Education

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🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

A member of IUCN, DSC is a mission-focused conservation organization, funded by hunters from around the world. With an administrative staff of less than 15 and a volunteer army of 500, DSC hosts the Greatest Hunters Convention on the Planet™ that raises funds for grants in conservation, outdoor education and hunter advocacy. In the past five years, more than $5 million has been channeled to qualified projects, organizations and programs in support of that mission. Get involved with DSC as a member, volunteer. Corey Mason is the Executive Director at DSC, a leading international conservation organization and a member of the IUCN. As Executive Director, Corey oversees all of DSC’s staff, programs, growth, and mission execution. He works extensively with federal and international delegations, policy makers, and like-minded conservation organizations to support conservation and the demonstrated benefits of the conservation through hunting model. Corey serves on numerous Boards and Committees, including state advisory committees for mule deer, whitetail deer, and desert bighorn sheep. He is a Past President of the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society. Prior to his work at DSC, he had a 16-year career with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department where he held the positions of Regional Director, Program Leader, and Management Area Biologist. Corey is a published author, including both popular and peer-reviewed scientific articles. He is a Certified Wildlife Biologist® and holds both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Wildlife Management.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone welcome to another episode of Kaffiru cast. I am still COVID-free just to let everybody know
0:07.8	And while I say that I'm assuming my guest today is COVID-free as well
0:13.0	But I have got Corey from Dallas Safari Club on to talk about the organization and what they do
0:19.7	Thanks for hopping on here. Hey Aaron. Thanks for having me buddy. I appreciate it. Are you COVID-free? Are you not no issue?
0:27.0	I am. I have a conform with a governor and officials directives and my family's been hold up like everybody else I think. Gotcha
0:34.6	Well, man, why don't you you know start off just tell everybody a little bit about the
0:39.6	Organization I'm very familiar with it. Just you know obviously being in the industry and and
0:44.2	What you guys do but for people that that don't know kind of give everybody a rundown you bet
0:49.7	Well, thanks for the opportunity to do that Aaron
0:51.7	I am for you the executive director here
0:54.1	I have a great privilege of helping lead this organization and it is an organization in which it's very unique and we're uniquely
1:01.6	Mission focused. We're a pretty lean mean organization. We're likely staff
1:06.0	And I take great pride in that because we we maximize every dollar that comes in to turn around and focus on
1:13.4	Conservation specific projects
1:15.4	We're headed headquartered here in Dallas, Texas
1:18.2	But our conservation footprint is globally and and we can talk about that in a little bit more detail
1:23.8	But you know where we work is right here in our backyard and the great state of Texas
1:28.1	It's all over in North America and essentially projects and ever continent around the world
1:33.0	We have a broad scope of work
1:34.7	You know we have a chapter footprint in North America. We have purposely not expanded beyond that at this point in time yet
1:41.7	Obviously we have a annual convention that is our primary fundraiser for the year that occurs in early January
1:47.6	That we use to generate our funds
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