Would you like to help a young boy realize his dream of fishing the flats of Florida?
Higher Calling Wildlife is working on that right now.
Higher Calling Wildlife® is an outreach of Texas-based Children’s Kingdom Ministries that takes teens facing special challenges on special wildlife expeditions.
Founded and organized by award-winning wildlife journalist/conservationist and Texas Fish & Game Editor-In-Chief Chester Moore, it is in Colorado at the moment with a group of kids and families and headed to Florida in July.
Learn more about the vision for the Higher Calling Wildlife outreach in the video below
“We’re excited to take an expedition to Florida where my friend Capt. Mo Estevez will take a special young boy flats fishing in beautiful Biscayne Bay, home of bonefish, permit and tarpon,” Moore saiid.
Moore will accompany them and also take the boy peacock bass fishing in some of his favorite southern Florida spots.
“It’s all about letting him know great things can happen in his life despite tragedy he has suffered and also letting him know how to get plugged into fisheries conservation.”
Capt. Mo Estevez looking for bonefish in Biscayne Bay.
Working with young people dealing with critical illness, in the foster system and facing other traumatic issues such as parent suicide, the outreach is based in love.
“Love is an action word. Our expression of that will be taking kids up into the mountains to show them how to use DSLR cameras and even their own smartphones to create incredible photos. They will get close to elk, bighorns, moose, wild turkeys and all kinds of creatures. And then we publish those photos in our publications and social media,” Moore said.
“We mentor them to get involved with wildlife conservation and in fact the first girl we ever did this for back in 2019 is graduating with a wildlife degree from Texas Tech this fall.”
Teaching conservation to youth gives them something to be a part of and that helps them through their struggles.
Moore said the Houston Safari Club Foundation provided a grant that helped pay for the Colorado expedition and the conservation community has been a big help in the past.
He needs the fishing community’s help for the Biscayne Bay project.
“We are not only doing the fishing but also a special educational/conservation gift package we are personally delivering to 25 kids in southern Florida.”
If you would like to help Moore’s outreach with a tax-deductible donation you can donate here.
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