10 February 2010, 01:47
KathiAfrican safari turns into trophy sport
African safari turns into trophy sport
February 10th, 2010
From The Deccan Chronicle
By DC Correspondent
Like sahibs of yore, top industrialists, doctors and realtors of the state are now going on African safaris to hunt elephants, lions, leopards, wild buffaloes and antelopes.
Many of them have sought NOCs from the AP forest department to bring back the trophies — stuffed heads of the animals they hunted.
Exciting safaris are on offer in Cameroon, Nambibia, Tanzania, South Africa and Zimbabwe for those who need a heavy adrenalin rush. “It was real hunting and I shot a lion and elephant and got the trophies,” says Dr T. Prabhakar Choudary, a surgeon from Mahbubnagar, who has visited Africa six times. “Once I tracked an elephant in Cameroon with my son for 18 days. It is dangerous. I have seen a charging buffalo killing an American woman.”
The going rate is $9,000 to hunt a cape buffalo in Tanzania. For hunting a lion, one has to spend $43,000. Deer is plentiful and less costly.
The safari is undertaken in forest areas allotted to companies with a “quota" of animals that can be killed. Later, the hunters strike the customary pose for lensmen with their guns and the dead animal.
“The chief wildlife warden has to give an NOC to bring back the trophies,” said the Wildlife Wing DFO, Mr A. Shankaran. “We don’t allow in endangered species.”
Thanks to the delays in NOCs, many trophies are still waiting on African shores.
10 February 2010, 02:23
Fjold$9K for Buff in Tanzania?
10 February 2010, 02:28
larryshoresI love the statement "Deer is plentifuland less costly."
Last time I went for lion, my daily rates alone exceeded the listed price.
Where do they get this s@*t?
10 February 2010, 03:22
BrettAKSCI+1
The gent clearly did his research on that one!
Brett
10 February 2010, 04:37
Use Enough GunThe person that wrote the article is a true idiot and an anti-hunter.
10 February 2010, 07:01
Matt Grahamquote:
Originally posted by Use Enough Gun:
The person that wrote the article is a true idiot and an anti-hunter.
hahaha - mate this isnt the New York Times ... this is a local rag in India!! I cant see anything in there that is anti-hunter - just quaint use of the English language...
10 February 2010, 07:33
RBHuntquote:
Originally posted by Kathi:
African safari turns into trophy sport
February 10th, 2010
From The Deccan Chronicle
By DC Correspondent
............ Deer is plentiful and less costly...........
Yeah, right!
I have a friend in Capetown who says he sometimes hunts fallow deer near Table Mountain, but they are far from common, and they are of course an introduced species. If this is an example of the accuracy of this reporter, I think it speaks for itself!!!
10 February 2010, 17:31
Matt GrahamI think you will find it was misinterpreted and was meant to read antelope...
11 February 2010, 03:11
Peterquote:
The person that wrote the article is a true idiot and an anti-hunter.
Oh! Checked out the photographs on the African Hunting or Hunt Reports forums? I have some myself!
Peter