NW Montana filmmaker: Wildlife hunting pays for its own future
Wildlife advocate and hunter Olivia Opre of Whitefish, right, honors a magnificent mule deer buck she harvested in Nebraska. She and her husband, filmmaker Tom Opre, are part of Shepherds of Wildlife Society, a nonprofit that works to reconnect people with wildlife. (Courtesy of Tony Bynum)
Her Royal Highness Chief Shikabeta, who recognized the need to recover a decimated wildlife population to save her own people from poverty. (Courtesy of Tony Bynum)
Filmmaker Tom Opre of Whitefish displays bracelets made of wire from confiscated snares in Lower Luano area of Zambia. Bracelet sales by his nonprofit, Shepherds of Wildlife Society, fund a small loan program that helps women start small business in the Shikabeta communities. (Carolyn Hidy)
A young hunter and his father explore ranch land in the Bears Paw Mountains looking for mule deer during Montana’s early youth big game hunt. (Courtesy of Tony Bynum)
Filmmaker Tom Opre of Whitefish shows footage to Makasa Safaris game scouts in Zambia. Opre's film "Killing the Shepherd" was screened at the Flathead Lake International Cinemafest, FLIC 2021, in late January in Polson. (Courtesy of Tony Bynum)
Wildlife filmmaker Tom Opre of Whitefish believes humans must see real value in wildlife before they will work to conserve and shepherd it into the future.
“The world’s wildlife populations are facing a huge threat to their very survival — the human population tsunami,” Opre said...
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