{"id":26,"date":"2021-09-16T08:47:43","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T08:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bhidvegi.webns.cloud\/en\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2023-01-25T10:59:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T10:59:21","slug":"awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bhidvegi.hu\/en\/awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“The trophy is the greatest reward for a hunter, physical proof you can touch; it\u2019s like a gold medal in other sports. Behind a valuable trophy are all the struggles and tensions, the ordeal involved, the exceptional sacrifices and, of course, the successes that come, too. All of it makes up the whole hunting experience.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recognition of his achievement of taking 2 types of markhor in Pakistan in 2005, he twice received the Carlo Caldesi award (4th and 5th), which is one of the world\u2019s most prestigious hunting awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2007, Hidvegi was awarded the SCl\u2019s most prestigious award, the World Hunting Award Ring, while in 2009 he was the recipient of the Ovis Club\u2019s (first among sheep and goat hunting organizations) prestigious \u201cTriple Slam\u201d award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is perhaps proudest of his Ovis Club Super 30 award which requires a hunter take 30 species\/subspecies of wild goat and 30 species\/subspecies of wild sheep. To date, only 5 hunters have accomplished this feat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“To my mind nothing compares with the hunting of wild sheep (\u2026), a sport which calls forth the highest efforts of skill as well as of endurance, the whole craft of hunting in the most magnificent and terrible places on God\u2019s earth. I would rather have hanging on my wall the head of an old markhor than that of the best lion I have ever seen, all the more because I know the time has now gone by when I could stand the work necessary to win this prize.\u201d \u2013 Sir Alfred Pease<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the 2009 National Hunting Day celebration, B\u00e9la Hidv\u00e9gi received Hungary\u2019s most esteemed hunting award, the National Hunting Order of Hungary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2012, on the occasion of the dedication of the \u201cGames Ibex Play\u201d statue, he was presented with the Award by the Hungarian Chamber of Hunting. This is the first time this Award, recognizing excellence in promoting Hungarian hunting in the fields of culture, education and wildlife protection has ever been given.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2013, he added the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic to his other awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

B\u00e9la Hidv\u00e9gi was also instrumental in establishing the Hungarian Chapter of SCI in 2006. He was president of the Chapter for two years and worked actively to create and promote the organization. He is now its honorary president. The Hungarian Chapter of SCI was named \u201cSCI Chapter of the Year\u201d in 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also contributes to SAFARI Magazine, an off-shoot of Nimrod Magazine, in which he writes articles and actively participates in the publishing of the magazine. As the result the Chapter received the outstanding Media Award in 2011 from SCI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is also currently an honorary director of SCI international.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The trophy is the greatest reward for a hunter, physical proof you can touch; it\u2019s like a gold medal in other sports. Behind a valuable trophy are all the struggles and tensions, the ordeal involved, the exceptional sacrifices and, of course, the successes that come, too. All of it makes up the whole hunting experience.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhidvegi.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhidvegi.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhidvegi.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhidvegi.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhidvegi.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bhidvegi.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/bhidvegi.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhidvegi.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhidvegi.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}