International News

WSF is honored to have two of our own, Corey Mason, Chief Operating Officer & Executive Vice President of Conservation, and Kurt Alt, Conservation Director – Montana & International Programs, join this episode to talk about all things wild sheep conservation.

The Wild Sheep Foundation, in partnership with the Arizona Desert Bighorn Sheep Society, just concluded a raffle for the Arizona Game & Fish Department. The result was a new record set for an Arizona sheep tag raffle. Through the generosity and commitment to wild sheep conservation, $357,900 was raised for the chance to be drawn for an Arizona Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep tag.

A significant trap and transplant operation occurred in mid-June in southern Nevada to aid a desert bighorn sheep population that has been at risk due to chronic drought conditions impacting both surface water and available forage. The Nevada Department of Wildlife, KUIU, Grand Slam Club Ovis, Fraternity of the Desert Bighorn, Nevada Bighorns Unlimited, the Wild Sheep Foundation (WSF), and a host of Nevada conservation NGOs partnered on a rescue mission.

The Wild Sheep Foundation announced a special opportunity for a chance at one of the most highly coveted tags in big game hunting. In partnership with the Arizona Game & Fish Department, and Arizona Desert Bighorn Sheep Society, WSF will be offering raffle ticket chances for a Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep tag through June 30th.  This special raffle tag will be valid in most hunting districts in Arizona from Aug 15, 2025–Aug 14, 2026.

Twenty-six Rock Mountain bighorn sheep have been documented road killed in western Nebraska since 2009. And 18 of them have died along a short stretch of Highway 71, most within the last three years. Those are significant losses when considering Nebraska's entire bighorn population is fewer than 225.