https://www.facebook.com/huntgeo/



Saw this Nubian Ibex hunt stating Sudan has opened. Some rugged terrain.

From the Facebook page:


HuntGeo is proud to announce the first successful and legal hunt on a Nubian Ibex in Sudan after more than 10 years. Thank you also to our partner kush armament We are the ONLY company what have the legal permits in Sudan to hunt Nubian Ibex - Aoudad Sheep - Eritrea Gazelle - Salt Dik Dik in Sudan www.huntgeo.com

Never saw or heard of a Zebra Duiker. Looks like they offer some very interesting destinations.

Thank you for sharing; this is very interesting! Nubian ibex would be awesome and I’ve long dreamt of Barbary sheep in their native habitat. I’ll have to keep my eye on opportunities developing there...

Erich from Hunt Geo is a serious guy also. No troubles when with him.

I will pass, until I don’t need my own private army to keep me safe.

He has a video out on it. On youtube, google Sudan and Hunt Geo.

Angelo Dacy used to run those safaris, I wonder who is doing it now?

If you go back 30+ years, a friend of mine named Chuck Bazzy did a lot of hunting there. He still hangs out with the SCI International crowd as well as Novi and Detroit Chapters. He wrote a book about his PH adventures there back in the 70's and 80's.

Interesting. Last time I checked, Michel Mantheakis still had a company in Sudan, but it had been shut down for hunting for years obviously. Hunting with Michel in 2021 in Tanzania, so I'll definitely ask.

I would love to hunt in Sudan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8BCg1OUijA



Fantastic video of a Nubian ibex hunt. Looks like an extremely tough hunt, but the one guide is wearing sandals while climbing the mountain and carrying a pack.

https://www.theguardian.com/gl...ters-shoot-rare-ibex

Open season in Sudan as trophy hunters flock to shoot rare ibex

Conservationists fear for endangered Nubian ibex in Sudan as westerners sold permits to hunt


Kaamil Ahmed

Tue 23 Mar 2021 03.30 EDT


Sudanese conservationists have accused trophy hunters of exploiting the country’s political transition to hunt the country’s unprotected rare animals.

Photographs posted online of westerners posing with the body of a rare Nubian ibex angered Sudanese wildlife campaigners this week. They called for Facebook to remove the pages of tour groups promoting such hunts.

While wildlife hunters have long come from the Gulf, Abubakr Mohammad, a biodiversity researcher, has seen a recent trend for western trophy hunters to come too, which he said could be a result of the country being more open to outsiders since the removal of Omar al-Bashir, the former president. Permits for hunting are being given out without sufficient scrutiny, says campaigners.

The Nubian ibex is considered extremely rare in Sudan and its population is classified as vulnerable and in decline, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).



“Before this, they were not able to do it because of the government’s approach to European visitors, especially to these areas – they were considered spies.

“With this new government, the whole world comes to Sudan,” said Mohammad, who runs a popular Facebook page on biodiversity in Sudan. “They’re all taking advantage..”

Hunt Geo, which is based in Austria and promotes hunting trips around the world, released a YouTube video in December of what it said was the first hunt in Sudan in 10 years, since the secession of South Sudan. Hunt Geo posted photographs online of its customers posing with the Nubian ibex.

The photos were also shared by Kush Armaments, a Sudanese company that attracted Mohammad’s attention because he noticed it shared his posts about wildlife spots in Sudan. He feared it was then hunting in those areas.

This will not end as long as Sudan is ruled by militias Mohamed al-Tayeb, singer and campaigner
Responding to anger in Sudan, Kush Armaments has deleted posts of the hunts, but they remain on Hunt Geo’s Facebook page. Neither Hunt Geo nor Kush Armaments responded to requests for comment.

Mohamed al-Tayeb, a Sudanese singer and wildlife campaigner, said Sudanese law needed to be changed to outlaw such hunts, but that there was still a problem of the companies being backed by powerful figures in the country.

“I think it’s really difficult to change this – they are the power in Sudan, they are the people who have money and weapons. Maybe they will close one company if there is media pressure about it, but this will not end as long as Sudan is ruled by militias,” said Tayeb.

Mohammad said that permits were given without enough attention to which animals were being hunted and whether rules were followed. He called for all hunting to be halted, especially as there is no clear idea about how many Nubian ibex remain in Sudan.

The IUCN said last year that the number of Nubian ibex in Sudan and neighbouring Eritrea was unknown. Mohammad said Sudan needed to update its laws to protect wildlife and write into the constitution a requirement for a body that would tasked with conservation.

My father hunted Sudan in the 1960’s as a guest of the government then.

Another sensational anti-hunting story by the biggest anti-hunting rag in the world!

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Originally posted by Gundog 64:
Never saw or heard of a Zebra Duiker. Looks like they offer some very interesting destinations.

Very Cool animals..... check them out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_duiker

Very good video. As I recall from Sudan days, Nubian Ibex were driven towards hunters with many beaters from nearby villages.

Never got to hunt that far east myself, but rather did Dorcas gazelle WNW of Khartoum and red fronted gazelle south of Khartoum not far from the White Nile. Also hunted waterfowl on the White Nile and korry bustard (hubara in Arabic) as well as guinea fowl.

Regards, Tim