The Return of the Lion Heart

“Brian Jarvi’s work excites me because he’s young and he commands the same qualities as you see in works by the old masters.” As outdoors people, let us be blunt: It is a troubling, tough and harrowing time to be alive on Planet Earth, but...
Buffalo Around the World

Buffalo Around the World

This week on Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey… We’re celebrating the different subspecies of buffalo from around the world, including the animal known to kill more hunters in Africa than any other, the Cape buffalo. While other subspecies of buffalo –...
Hunting in the High and Dry

Hunting in the High and Dry

The rugged desert mountains of Pakistan are home to two revered big game animals. Asia, the largest continent on earth, has fascinated Westerners since the dawn of recorded history and attracted bold adventurers and shikar hunters since Marco Polo reported of his...
One Family’s Quest to Save a Species…Through Hunting

One Family’s Quest to Save a Species…Through Hunting

The comeback story of one of the most unique antelope in the world Mention Ethiopia to a westerner and images of drought and famine come to mind, an impoverished land wrapped in tragedy and sadness where pity is a leading export. Thus, imagine my surprise as I land in...
Sharing Shelter with the African Leopard

Sharing Shelter with the African Leopard

Whether a croc or leopard, the brave young woman handled each close encounter with the same degree of calmness. Mary left the dugout canoe and started to walk through a forest. The rain was coming down hard, but it was warm rain, not the cold rain of her native...
Death of a Tusker

Death of a Tusker

Poaching of Africa’s elephants continues at alarming levels, spurred by poverty, corrupt government officials, and the demand for illegal ivory in Asian countries. My earliest and fondest memories of the Kenya bush are the times I spent in Tsavo National Park...
Hope, Faith and the Man-Killer

Hope, Faith and the Man-Killer

Night and day they would pursue the huge beast that was threatening the very existence of several villages. Hope is twenty-three and Faith is two, and they live together, mother and child, in a tiny mud and grass-thatched rondavel a couple of miles from a place called...
The Kanda Man-Eater

The Kanda Man-Eater

One can suffer a bad case of mixed emotions when trying to call in a man-killing tiger. However little faith we have in the superstitions we share with others—13 at a table, the passing of wine at dinner, walking under a ladder, and so on—our own private...
Pursuing The Alpine Ibex

Pursuing The Alpine Ibex

  A once-in-a-lifetime hunt amid the lofty peaks of the Swiss Alps. Nearly a decade ago, I stayed in an Austrian castle, its walls adorned with architectural-looking alpine animal skulls. Perhaps the most intriguing of those was a goat-like creature, its...