In her twenties, Brooke Chilvers’s went on a yearlong camping trip during which she learned to catch a fish, shoot a gun, paddle a canoe, and build a campfire. Her outdoor skills and willingness to go anywhere made her the perfect target for French professional hunter Rudy Lubin, who operates in the Central African Republic. Brooke used her pen to become a full-fledged member of the hunting community, writing about game management, conservation, and wildlife art, travelling to wherever the story took her.

“As editor of AHG, with each issue, everything I’ve learned and experienced during the last 25 years as a member of the hunting community comes into play,” says Brooke.

Brooke is also the Sporting Art Columnist for Gray’s Sporting Journal, a vice-president of the International Professional Hunters Association (IPHA), an Honorary Member of the African Professional Hunters Association (APHA), a member of the IUCN Antelope Specialist Group, and a winner of the Journalist Award for the Professional Hunters Association of South Africa (PHASA).

(Publisher) Richard Lendrum was born in Zambia, grew up in Zimbabwe, and has lived in South Africa for the last 22 years. Growing up close to nature, in a family that spent much time in the Matopo hills outside Bulawayo studying birds and wildlife, Richard realized the role that tourism – and especially hunting tourism – plays in conserving wildlife and habitat, and wanted to be part of that. Alongside the marketing media business Richard founded 14 years ago, AHG contributes to meeting his goal – to promote hunting in Africa.

South African Tanya Lane studied travel and tourism and is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. Originally supporting Future Publishing’s network, she became AHG’s production manager and now fills the role of (Managing Editor) she also runs the African Hunting Show in Atlanta.

Mabel Ramafoko, who’s been in the publishing industry for more than seven years, joined Future Publishing in 2005 as a receptionist. One month later, she was moved to the subscription and distribution department, and handles AHG’s distribution in Africa.

American (sales executive) Kim Rieman lives on a ranch in south-west Montana. A graduate in teaching and business, Kim’s been both a competitive long distance runner and high altitude mountaineer. She’s worked for Outside and DAKOTA magazines, and is passionate about hunting and sporting clays.

Nicole Kelly is in charge of the North America and European subscriptions for AHG. She is new to the magazine business but she brings extensive customer service, marketing and tradeshow experience to her job. She has worked as a Marketing Assistant and Product Manager Assistant as well as a computer trainer for a large corporation. She lives in Canada in the beautiful area of Muskoka with her husband, 2 girls and dog.

AHG Columnists

African Hunting Gazette’s firearms columnist, Terry Wieland, is shooting editor of Gray’s Sporting Journal and a regular contributor to RifleShooter, Guns & Ammo, Petersen’s Hunting, and Safari Times.

In 1971, as a journalist, Wieland made his first trip to Africa to cover the civil war in the Sudan, returned in 1972 to cover the turmoil in Uganda, and again in 1976, covering both the bush war in Rhodesia and the riots in South Africa. He made his first hunting safari in 1990 and has returned a dozen times since, hunting in Tanzania, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.

Wieland is the author of six books on rifles, shotguns, and hunting, including Spanish Best (1994 and 2002), Spiral-Horn Dreams (1995), The Magic of Big Game (1998), A View From A Tall Hill – Robert Ruark in Africa (2000), Dangerous-Game Rifles (2006), and Vintage British Shotguns (2008). A revised and expanded second edition of Dangerous-Game Rifles will be published in the fall of 2009.

Columnist Joe Coogan is an avid hunter, shooter, and outdoorsman who lived and worked in Kenya, Botswana and Tanzania for nearly 30 years. He conducted safaris as a professional hunter for more than 20 years, beginning his safari career in Botswana in 1972 with Ker, Downey & Selby Safaris and later Safari South when the two companies amalgamated. He spent another three years in Tanzania with Tanzania Game Tracker Safaris.

Coogan, who holds a degree in mass communications/journalism, was the feature editor for Petersen's Hunting Magazine back in the 1990s, and because of his African safari work and writing background, he is known and respected in both the US and international hunting communities.

Besides writing ASG’s back page column Sundowner Tales Coogan currently works for Benelli USA, and hosts Benelli TV’s Benelli On Assignment, now in its third season airing on VERSUS.”