I shot a leopard in 10 and since I was returning in June of 11 I waited to have my leopard shipped with what ever i would take in June of this year. Taxidermist in Zambia telling us now there is a permit problem shipping a leopard taken in 10 shipping in 11.
Anyone heard of this before?

I wish I could help. Do you think it would help to get your PH involved? The concession you hunted with will have all of the permits, hopefully, and the paperwork to show when the leopard was taken. Just a thought

already done that but thanks

Jeff,
Pretty sure the Cites is only valid one year.

Try calling the folks at Coppersmith. I had a similar issue and they got it sorted.

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Originally posted by dogcat:
Try calling the folks at Coppersmith. I had a similar issue and they got it sorted.

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Charlie McClendon
Import / Export Analyst
cmcclendon@coppersmith.com

Coppersmith Global Logistics
3025 Roy Orr Blvd.
Grand Prairie, Texas  75050
Tel:  (972) 262-0539 – Ext. 110
Fax: (972) 262-2951

If you have a leopard trophy on its way to the United States, contact your importer immediately to ensure your trophy will not be seized by the US Fish & Wildlife Service. According to John J. Jackson, III, of Conservation Force, a number of leopard trophies have already been seized by USFWS agents for a new reason having to do with the year the leopard was taken versus the year it was exported.

As Jackson reports in this month's issue of Conservation Force, leopard tags and export permits that cite the quota for the year of the export rather than the year of the hunt are now being treated as invalid by USFWS inspectors. Those trophies are subject to forfeiture under the regulations of the Endangered Species Act, by which USFWS enforces CITES regulations. Already trophies from Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe have been seized at ports from San Francisco to New York. Because the agency treats CITES imports with any paperwork errors as contraband, hunters lose all property rights to their trophies.

To prevent this from happening with your trophies, download the updated Trophy Problem Checklist Jackson has created. Send a copy to your operator and expediter in Africa and to your broker in the United States. Make sure each recommended step applying to your trophy has been taken. If your shipment arrives in the US with any errors on the paperwork, return it immediately. If the trophy is seized, you will most likely lose it forever.

The November issue of Conservation Force Bulletin features the full story on this development and the reason why US Fish & Wildlife has taken this route with trophies


Who is your broker in Us Jeff ? This should be old news to them !

http://www.huntingreport.com/w...te.cfm?articleid=581


Update on Leopard Trophy Imports: Namibia OK, Zambia A Problem

(posted October 06, 2011)

Attention leopard hunters from the US!

That importation snafu we reported regarding leopard trophies from Namibia has been resolved favorably for hunters, but now there's a problem with leopard imports from Zambia.

In an Email Extra Bulletin on September 12 and in the October issue of The Hunting Report we warned you that the US Fish & Wildlife Service had seized two leopards from Namibia because the quota information on the CITES tag was hand-etched instead of stamped. Agents said higher-ups at Headquarters had decided that this form of indication did not comply with CITES regulations. Turns out, that was not true. In fact, USFWS Headquarters has instructed agents to release those trophies.

According to John J. Jackson, III, of Conservation Force, this was a case of over-eager inspectors exercising "imaginative law enforcement." Their interpretation of the CITES regulations was overturned by Washington Law Enforcement headquarters, which we hear is feeling the heat for their unfair trophy seizure policies. Jackson represented at least one of the hunters whose Namibian leopard trophy was seized by New York agents.

As soon as the Namibian leopard imports problem was cleared up, however, a new problem emerged with leopard trophy imports from Zambia. According to John Meehan of Fauna and Flora Customhouse Brokerage, several Zambian leopards have arrived without the required quota information on the CITES tag. Those trophies will be seized if their owners do not return them to Zambia. Hunters importing a leopard trophy from Zambia should contact their operator or shipping agent in Zambia and have them hold the trophy until this issue is resolved and tags reissued with the information required by USFWS.

We've told you in the past that USFWS had decided that all CITES tags must indicate not only the number of the quota the trophy represents but the total quota for the country. In other words, #25 of 250. This is despite the common practice among many nations to omit the country quota, which is well documented and listed elsewhere on the export documentation.

We will continue to follow this latest development. If you are importing a CITES trophy into the United States, we urge you to send your operator and shipping agent a copy of Jackson's Checklist to Avoid Trophy Seizures. - Barbara Crown, Editor

thanks guys this give me some ammo!
I really appreciate all your suggestions and information!

Good Hunting!

USF&W seem like they are a bunch of anti hunting terrorists.
They are the Right wing zealots of the conservation world.

WRONG!! LEFT WING ANTI-HUNTING ZEALOTS!!!! MOST FOLKS ON THE "LEFT" ARE ANTI-HUNTING BY DEFINITION. even when we are lucky enough to have a rightward leaning administration, the petty administrators in charge of USFWS are generally anti- hunting! if they can make a hunters life miserable- THEY WILL!!!!! anti hunting, anti meat, anti fur- etc, etc, etc. HOW CAN YOU SHOOT BAMBI'S FATHER?? the bullshit never ends,