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Mozambique Proposes Resuming Hunting of Hippos

Maputo — Mozambique is in favour of resuming limited sports hunting of hippopotamus, and intends to take this proposal to the next meeting of the Standing Committee of CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species), due to be held in Geneva next week.

In 2012, CITES decided to suspend the trade in hippopotamus trophies from Mozambique, since the size of the Mozambican hippo population was unclear, making it difficult to allocate quotas for sport hunting.

“Mozambique is working with the European Union, the United States and the CITES Secretariat, in order to resume the international trade in hippopotamus trophies”, said Bartolomeu Soto, the General Manager of Mozambique's National Administration of Conservation Areas (ANAC).

Speaking at a meeting in Maputo on Monday with ANAC's cooperation partners, Soto said the government is gathering advice and recommendations to improve the document that will be submitted to the CITES secretariat for its approval. He hoped that Mozambique will be able to trade in hippopotamus trophies again as from 2018.

According to Soto, Mozambique now has over 7,000 hippos, which means that 40 animals a year can be hunted without causing any problems in the ecosystem.

Soto added that, as part of the fight against poaching and the illegal trade in wildlife products, Mozambique has been signing bilateral agreements for the protection and conservation of biodiversity.



The signing of agreements with Vietnam (in August 2017), and with South Africa and Tanzania, he said, were unequivocal signs of commitment to the fight against poaching which is endangering the survival of species such as rhinos, elephants, pangolins and lions.

The agreement with Vietnam could prove particularly important, since Vietnam is the destination for much of the rhino horn smuggled out of southern Africa. Several Vietnamese citizens have been arrested at Maputo International Airport in possession of rhino horn.

The agreements signed, Soto said, clarify the tasks of each country in the fight against poaching.

He noted that this year the Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, strengthening the country's anti-poaching legislation, so that those who order crimes against biodiversity can be jailed for up to 16 years.

“We are working to meet the targets set by the United Nations in the Sustainable Development Goals”, said Soto. “These recommend stepping up the struggle against poaching and the trafficking in protected species, but also improving the capacity of local communities so that they can benefit from sustainable livelihoods”.

Good!

That will put a bee up the bloody ignorant antis rear end!

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Hippo hunting resumes in Mozambique

11:38 CAT | 04 Dec 20170

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) has authorised the resumption of hippopotamus sport hunting in Mozambique.

The 69th CITES meeting, which took place in Geneva, Switzerland, overturned Mozambique’s five-year suspension of hippo hunting and the export of trophies. Hungary, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Malawi were among those who supported the resumption.

In 2012, CITES decided to suspend commercial hippo hunting and trophy trafficking when it became clear that there was no clarity on the number of hippos in the country, which made it difficult to allocate quotas.

Source: AIM Moçambique

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the fight against poaching which is endangering the survival of species such as rhinos, elephants, pangolins and lions.

The antis have to understand the meaning of and to differentiate between POACHING & Legal, Conservation orientated/regulated Hunting!

Good news.

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Originally posted by fulvio:

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the fight against poaching which is endangering the survival of species such as rhinos, elephants, pangolins and lions.

The antis have to understand the meaning of and to differentiate between POACHING & Legal, Conservation orientated/regulated Hunting!

You are kidding yourself my friend.

The antis only want one thing, the death of ALL HUNTING!

That is why I keep saying stop playing their games, and stand up to the bloody ignorant idiots!