Specialties – African big game, cartridges, game farm management, and safari planning
 Since 2000, Kimberly L Kanapeckas has served as a Writer and Field Staff reviewer for WomenHunters Inc, an organization that she believes admirably promotes the involvement of women and children in hunting, ensuring the perpetuation of the sport. In addition to delivering scientific reports on game conservation, she writes book reviews, personal narratives, and pieces concerning ethics of the hunt. As a writer, she works closely with hunting product designers and manufacturers in order to provide objective field reviews and to promote the gear preferences of the serious hunter. Kimberly is quite honored to have contributed to the development of the inaugural International Pro Staff of WomenHunters Inc.
Kimberly holds a four-year Bachelor of Science degree in Biology with a senior research thesis on Cape buffalo disease ecology. She is a professional member of the American Society for Mammalogists as well as the Wildlife Group of the South African Veterinary Association.
 Since infancy, Kimberly has been exposed to the outdoor sports across North America to Africa - from snoek and shark fishing off the Florida gulf to pursuing barren-ground caribou in Quebec and plainsgame in Africa. She has orchestrated successful hunts for African ungulates in addition to Rocky Mountain elk in North America. Kimberly hunts most frequently with firearms and focuses on African big game.
In South Africa, Kimberly became enthralled with the mechanics of African sport hunting, even though biltong hunting is her guilty pleasure. She continues to remain active in the international sphere of big game hunting, particularly across the African continent. Kimberly serves as the U.S. Corresponding Hunting Editor for the African Hunters Guild, an organization that works to make the experience of hunting Africa safe, ethical, reliable, and successful. Publications such as THE AFRICAN SPORTING GAZETTE, SA HUNTER/JAGTER, AFRICAN OUTFITTER: PROFESSIONAL HUNTING IN PERSPECTIVE, and AFRICAN INDABA have printed her articles. She is an Official Measurer for Safari Club International, has been nominated to the SABLES division’s Long-range Planning Committee, and was awarded Press Credentials for the 2008 SCI Hunters’ Convention in Reno, Nevada, USA.
With her expertise in game biology and hunter education certification, Kimberly has educated youth and adults about hunting and wildlife conservation for years in the States.
Through her travels and involvement in hunting-related organizations like Safari Club International, Kimberly has been exposed to many different cultures, and in the process she has gained perspective on the many different approaches to hunting around the globe. She desires that professionals and their clients in the industry take responsibility for quick, clean kills, the full utilization of harvested game, fair business transactions, and representing their country as best they are able.
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Kimberly hopes to delineate further how to safeguard an ethical, respectable hunting industry and to encourage readers to realize the importance of such an endeavor. Whether a professional hunter, outfitter, guide, or amateur hunter, Kimberly believes that conducting oneself in a manner that reflects sincere appreciation of the privilege of hunting and the game pursued is essential to maintaining credibility and the privilege to continue doing what we love. One must make apparent the honesty, dedication, and nobility of the sport and its players because anyone may be watching with interest in entering the hunting world!
Having graduated Valedictorian from high school, Kimberly researched in microbiology and genetics laboratories, winning national recognition and working for the Wildlife Health Lab of the Division of Wildlife, Department of Natural Resources, Colorado, and the Wildlife Management sector of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. She has also conducted research on the associations between blood parasite prevalence and bovine tuberculosis in African buffalo in KwaZulu-Natal. Her current scientific interests include wildlife disease pathophysiology and game farm management. Following her passion for the international sport hunting world, Kimberly is dedicating her professional life to conserving game species as a wildlife researcher and certified Professional Hunter in South Africa and Namibia. She will be filming for a nationally-syndicated African hunting television series in South Africa the latter half of this year.
Kimberly speaks English, Afrikaans, and Spanish. She cites her father, fellow members of WomenHunters™, the pioneering explorer/hunter-writers of Africa, and the many PHs she has come to know among her most influential mentors. Please contact Kimberly at kkanapec@webmail.co.za if you would like for her to review your product or would like suggestions as to your options hunting southern Africa.
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