IAF January 2020 eBulletin

Thanks to volunteer translators, this eBulletin is available in other languages. If you would like to take part, email muehle@iaf.org . If your language does not appear, we upload  late translations onto the Facebook page

Important note to delegates, to club representatives and to translators: please don't forget to forward this eBulletin to your club members and all the falconer you know, especially the many language versions, even if it is by a "share" on social media - you will magnify the falconer's voice!

IAF Strategy 2020 and Beyond

In the IAF Strategy for Falconry 2020, four main areas have been identified where we must concentrate our resources:

1. Knowledge Management and Sharing
2. Communications and PR
3. Member Co-ordination
4. Legislation and Regulation

Your needs and ideas are invited. For example: it would be helpful to obtain information regarding the “pro-social” role that falconry has played,  examples of ways that falconry has been beneficial to the world;  e.g., the role of falconry in conservation, animal welfare, species survival, science, human culture and society, et cetera.  Specific examples would help most, especially those with accompanying records, reports, data, references, etc.

This information will be helpful for countries currently in dialogue with their governments about legalization and for IAF general Knowledge Storage and future sharing, so it is relevant to two of four strategic areas.

Request for news items

The IAF eNewsletter is published twice a year. Complimentary to this monthly eBulletin, it is a pleasant read, photos and news items from clubs around the world. 

We need reports of what is going on in your part of the world, how you celebrate falconry, news about issues that affect falconry where you are, or anything of cultural or sporting importance that you wish to share with the global falconry family.

• * Please send content in English, Russian, Arabic or Spanish
• * Nice short articles - between 500 - 800 words 
• * Also nice big hi-resolution pictures (at least 1MB)
• *  .... and videos.
• Remember to submit the source for the content and photos

Please send to the editor alessandra@iaf.org

2020 IAF Council of Delegates Meeting, Kearney, Nebraska, USA, 22-27 November

Learning from past meetings, delegates are advised to begin the travel planning process early, even though the meeting is still ten months away. Visa applications should be started soon. To travel to the USA some countries need visas (see the website) and some may participate in the Visa Waiver Programme that needs an online application for the ESTA document, which replaces the standard visa. Please also check if your passport will have at least six months left on it from the date you leave the United States to go back home. The NAFA team will do everything they can to help you through the process.

There are no international flight connections in Nebraska, so you will need to plan your connections. Kearney Airport is about five miles from the venue and the hotel quarter. It has flights from Denver and Chicago. Other nearby airports are: Grand Island (under an hour by car), with flights from Las Vegas and Dallas; Lincoln Aiport is around two hours away and Omaha nearly three. They both have good connections, both domestic and international flights. Car-hire is recommended. The roads in Nebraska are excellent.

Please keep an eye on the IAF Facebook page for other information, which we will transmit as we receive it.

Three new National Clubs announced at the IAF Council of Delegates' Meeting in December

During 2019, IAF received 28 membership applications from clubs and organizations. Four of these were approved as Members and one as Supporting Member, by the Council  of Delegates (see December eBulletin)

The Luxembourg Hawking Club, Suomen Haukkametsästäjät  (Finland),  Norsk Falkejakt Forbund (Norway) and China falconry Culture Communication (China) are all less than two years old and do not, therefore, fulfil the rule that IAF clubs can only be voting members when they have been in existence for two years. The Council of Delegates agreed to award these four clubs Observer Status until such times as the two year period has been achieved, The first three clubs are all currently engaged with their governments in attempts to normalize falconry legislation in their respective countries, and this status will mean that we can better assist them.  China falconry Culture Communication is a third Chinese club for IAF. Its second birthday is just one month away. 

World Falconry Day Video Competition Voting

Please click on the link below to vote for the winners of the World Falconry Day 2019 video competition. Further details can be found on the poll: http://www.123formbuilder.com/form-5263147/online-feedback-form

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