SCIENCE BLASTS

The Boone and Crockett Club recently launched Big Game Records Live 2.0, a major evolution of its digital platform that transforms the world’s oldest big game records database into an interactive analytics tool for hunters.

By Ben Mulligan*
Council to Advance Hunting and the Shooting Sports, Chair
Boone and Crockett Club, Professional Member

SCIENCE BLASTS

Much debate has occurred through the years over the value and purpose of maintaining records of “trophy” big game animals killed by hunters. This has become magnified in recent years with a focus on trophy hunting in general, spawned in part by the Cecil the Lion episode, and in conflicting reports on the genetic impacts of trophy hunting to big game populations in particular.

SCIENCE BLASTS

Where Hunting and Fishing Happen, Conservation Happens®

For the past 133 years the Boone and Crockett Club has focused its efforts on key initiatives that led to the establishment of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation. Today, the Club is engaging its network of conservation professionals in support of advancing this Model and addressing any threats to it.