Just heard Chad is open for plains game hunting for close to $80,000. Anyone else hear anything on this?

yes I got mail about that, think Shockey hunted there a couple of years ago

It has been open for a while.



Chad
The Republic of Chad is a landlocked country in northern Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south. It is the fifth largest country in Africa in terms of area, almost twice the size of the State of Texas.

Chad has several regions: a desert zone in the north, an arid Sahelian belt in the center and a more fertile Sudanese Savanna zone in the south. Lake Chad, after which the country is named, is the largest wetland in Chad and the second-largest in Africa. The capital N’Djamena is the largest city, and the start point for all safaris. Chad is home to over 200 different ethnic and linguistic groups. Arabic and French are the official languages. Islam and Christianity are the most widely practiced religions.

Chad’s animal and plant life correspond to the three climatic zones. In the Saharan region, the only flora is the date-palm groves of the oasis, and little wildlife remains. Palms and acacia trees grow in the Sahelian region, which harbors a few dry country species. The southern, or Sudanic, zone consists of broad grassland savannah, with rolling hills and small mountains. This is where safaris take place today. Extensive deforestation, continuing civil wars and dysfunctional politics; also expanded livestock farming and increasing human settlements have caused loss of natural habitat for wild game. Large game, such as elephant, lion, leopard and rhino have been almost decimated.

Today Chad is a destination for collectors, not for general bag safaris. It is the best venue for hunting the western greater kudu, and the only country where the red-fronted gazelle can be hunted. The hunting season is limited to January through March, and small harvest quotas require booking well in advance.

Species List:
Western Greater Kudu
Western Roan
Lelwel Hartebeest
Nigerian Bohor Reedbuck
Red-fronted Gazelle
Western Bush Duiker
Oribi
Warthog
Striped Hyena
Golden Jackal
Side-striped Jackal
African Wild Cat

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AR link from 2014 about Chad opening and a hunt report from Barb and Alan Sackman.

Chad is open but not all the areas, at least not the sahara and the ennedi mountains, which i believe used to be the more interesting part of the country, the hunting is done in the south and are mainly for western greater kudu as well as red fronted gazelle, lelwel hartebeest, western bush duiker, and western roan, not much else is hunted. Looks interesting but mainly as a collectors hunt, I have a client that is going there just for the kudu as he needs it for his spiral horn collection. I don't know the price of these hunts but 80,000 seems to high.

Club Faune is asking 9500 Euro trophy fee for the kudu!!!

https://abcnews.go.com/Interna...on/story?id=54908456


Good article, photos and news video, Black rhinos return to Chad nearly 50 years after local extinction.

We have just finished 2 successful safaris in chad , and have quota for 2019/20/21
Happy to answer any questions, but not $80 000

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Originally posted by Kathi:
https://abcnews.go.com/Interna...on/story?id=54908456


Good article, photos and news video, Black rhinos return to Chad nearly 50 years after local extinction.

About 10 years ago, I was in Cameroon on the train heading south to Douala after hunting in the north. Sharing the compartment was the ambassador from Chad. He asked about us, and I, in my very marginal French, said that we were hunters. He then related how there was good hunting in his country, and he, unprompted, specifically mentioned rhinos as being present in his country. Interesting in view of Kathi's posted article.