http://journalducameroun.com/e...sume-trophy-hunting/


Mozambique plans to resume trophy hunting

Published on 05.05.2017 à 15h21 by APA News


Mozambique plans to reintroduce trophy hunting as part of a strategy for the sustainable management of parks and natural assets as well as building a profitable world-class tourism industry, Land, Environment and Rural Development Minister Celso Correia said on Friday.The minister told the annual general meeting of the Sport Hunters Association that trophy hunting was one of the largest sources of income for conservation areas in Mozambique.

He said the government was trying to address the challenges that led to the banning of trophy hunting before resumption of the activity.

Correia cited some of the problems as the existence of organized criminal gangs, particularly poaching.

“There are also difficulties in importing weapons and ammunition for hunting, degradation of wildlife habitats, agricultural activity, increase of human settlements in hunting areas, among others” Correia said.

He called on tourism operators to urgently implement measures to address the problems and said the lack of a favourable business environment was a major obstacle to a substantial increase in the number of tourists in Mozambique.

Protected areas, including parks and national reserves and forests, make up about 11 percent of the national territory.


In the last 10 years, Mozambique recorded an average of 427 prospective hunters per year.

In terms of revenue, Correia said Mozambique raised about US$622,000 last year from issuing hunting licenses, providing hunter-guides, selling slaughter passwords, paying farm fees and issuing certificates of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

Mozambique’s intention comes at a time Australia has banned the import of trophy-hunted lions, while the European Union has just ordered the ban on elephant hunting trophies from Tanzania and Mozambique because of the threat posed to the animals by poachers.

Recently a number of airlines such as South African Airways, Lufthansa, British Airways, Iberia and Air Emirates cargo divisions announced embargoes on transporting sport-hunting trophies.

They join Air France, KLM, Singapore Airways, and Qantas who have had the ban in place for some time.

Molz plans to RESUME trophy hunting? I wasn't aware they'd suspended it.

Note the article is from Cameroon.

I think the intent of the article was that Mozambique wants to increase hunting based on the successes in the Zambezi Delta Coutada's.

Title may have been misleading.

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Originally posted by Safari2:
I think the intent of the article was that Mozambique wants to increase hunting based on the successes in the Zambezi Delta Coutada's.

Title may have been misleading.

They did not post the entire article see link below from a Mozambique news agency:

http://clubofmozambique.com/ne...ng-minister-correia/

I am going in October so I sure hope Moz has resumed by then......

It's not been suspended. Been going on for a long time...

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