From the June 2004 issue of "The Hunting Report",all CITES listed species taken from the Central African Republic are banned from import into the U.S. This includes BONGO and various duikers. Now that would hurt considering what bongos cost.

Kathi

kathi@wldtravel.com

I wonder why.

I wonder if the price of bongos will go down - probably not.

CAR has "not provided adequate justification for their failure to submit CITES annual reports for three consecutive years".

Kathi

It's also part of the price they will pay for not getting a handle on the poachers flooding the country from the Sudan. The CAR is on the verge of losing most of it's game (especially the savanna game) according to the people I know that outfit there.

Mac

Cameroon/Central African Republic: You always hear that 1 country has better bongo and the other has better eland, which one is it?

The theory is that the CAR has better Eland hunting and Cameroon has better Bongo hunting. I don't know if I buy off on this. When I was in Cameroon in March, I saw lots of Eland and the safari outfit I was with, Ngong Safaris, has been running 100% on Eland for over 10 years. I met Craig Boddington in the airport in Guoua and he sat next to me on the flight out. He was amazed at the quality and quantity of game he saw and he wrote abut it in the current issue of SCI's Safari Times newsletter.

Bottom line is that CAR is about shot out.

Mac

The common belief the way I hear it is that Cameroon has better bongo and CAR better Derbys. However Pierre Guirrini of Faro West is each year taking several Derby over 50 inches.

Mike