Tag: hunting
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Govt to regulate falcon trade
The federal government has directed relevant authorities to streamline the import and export of falcons, ensuring that birds that are brought into Pakistan are taken back by their owners and not exchanged. In a meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Management Authority on September 4,…
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U.S. citizen hunts down markhor with license
Another foreign hunter has hunted down a markhor in Pakistan with a license that preservation experts say helps in increasing the population of the endangered animal. During the third trophy hunt, an American citizen, Robert Myles Hall, hunted a Kashmiri Markhor at the Gahirat-Golen community game for a trophy permit of $125,000. The animal was…
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Man arrested for killing over 100 rare ibex in Gilgit-Baltistan
The Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) wildlife department has arrested a man for killing more than 100 Himalayan ibex in the region. Read more – Rare striped hyena rescued in DI Khan According to a report in The Express Tribune, the culprit Mohammad Essa was arrested while he was on his way home in the Hoper village of…
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Man put behind bars for illegally hunting ibex cubs
A man was sentenced to jail for eight months by the Hunza wildlife magistrate for illegally hunting two Himalayan ibex cubs. According to Dawn, the Gilgit-Baltistan wildlife department had discovered the carcasses of ibex cubs during the inspection of a vehicle at Ganish bridge on the Karakoram Highway in Hunza area. The officials seized the…
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Spanish hunter pays $83,500 to kill season’s third markhor in Gilgit
A Spanish hunter in Gilgit has killed the third markhor of the season after paying a whopping $83,500 as the permit fee, ARY reported. According to Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) Wildlife Department, Carlo Pasco successfully hunted a flared-horned markhor in the conservation area. The hunting fees for different local species were decided in November last year as…
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Special hunting permit issued to King of Bahrain for rare houbara bustard
Special permits have been issued by the federal government to King of Bahrain Sheikh Hamad bin Isa bin Salman al Khalifa and five of his family members to hunt the internationally-protected houbara bustard during the 2019-20 hunting season. The permits were delivered to the Embassy of the Kingdom of Bahrain in the federal capital and…