Thanks for joining us for the start of our journey in South Africa! Our first podcast episode of this series organized by the Cape Falconry Club features a conversation with Richard Huchzermeyer. We were able to get this recorded in between breaks during the joint IUCN/IAF conference being held in Cape Town the first weekend I was in South Africa, and along with hearing about Richard's falconry story, this is the first of many educational and informative episodes of how things work with falconry in the South African provinces. We hope you find the series as interesting as we did, and hopefully hearing how falconry is conducted from another country with different provincial perspectives will peak your interests as much as it did ours! We'd also like to thank the Falconry Heritage Trust for helping to sponsor the travel expenses to make this series possible. For more information about the mission of the FHT and how to donate to their cause, please go to https://www.falconryheritage.org.