quote:

Originally posted by shakari:
Don'tcha just wish that one single African country could simply issue a sensible set of game laws.

quote:

Originally posted by Brett Adam Barringer:
The reference I was reading didn't come out and say it was illegal. It just seemed from the wording that it was a possibility. I should have worded the spotlighting part of my question better. I know it's illegal and I know it happens in Tanzania. What I'm asking is how common is the practice? Are we talking a few isolated incidents or is that a rampant problem?

Brett

quote:

Originally posted by SteveGl:
For your reading pleasure: Link

By the way, Steve, it's now legal to shoot crocs near water.

quote:

Originally posted by shakari:
I understand the tourist hunting regulations are just about to be replaced with new ones so it's probably not the best of times to be talking about the old ones...... I'll bet the best man to comment on the new ones is Bwanamich.

quote:

Originally posted by Bwanamich:
As stated in an earlier thread somewhere on AR, there is a written circular from the Directorate of Wildlife allowing the use of bait for lion, hyena, leopard and crocodile to the now defunct Tanzainia Wildlife Corporation which allowed this. TAWICO used to be the Gov parastatal that run the entire hunting industry in Tz for a while. That circular still stands as the "regulation" that makes this hunting method legal.

quote:

Originally posted by SteveGl:
For your reading pleasure: Link

quote:

Unlawful methods of hunting

65.-(1) Any person shall not, except by and in accordance with the written authority of the Director previously sought and obtained or in accordance with regulations made under this Act -

(a) use for the purpose of hunting any animal
(i) any mechanically propelled vehicle;
(ii) any poison, bait, poisoned bait, poisoned weapon, stakes, net, gin, trap, set gun, pitfall, missile, explosives, ball ammunition, snare, hide, spear, fence or enclosure;
(iii) a dog or any domesticated animal;
(iv) any automatic or semi automatic firearm capable of firing more than one cartridge as a result of one pressure of the trigger or of reloading itself more than once without further action by the operator;
(v) any device capable of reducing or designed to reduce the sound made by the discharge of any firearm;
(vi) any artificial light or flare, night vision devises; or
(vii) any anaesthetic dart capable of immobilisation;

(b) in the process of hunting any animal cause any fire; and

(c) hunt any animal -
(i) from any mechanically propelled vehicle or within two hundred metres of such vehicle, except when hunting birds in water;
(ii) other than a hippopotamus, otter, sitatunga, puku, crocodile, water-buck or bird within five hundred metres of any permanent water, pool, waterhole or salt-lick;
(iii) within one kilometre of a national park, a zoo, game sanctuary, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area or an aerodrome; and
(iv) during the hours of darkness.

quote:

56.-( 1) A person shall not hunt or kill the young of any animal or any female animal which is apparently pregnant or which is accompanied by its young.

quote:

Every tourist hunting company shall ensure that the minimum number of citizen professional hunters under its employment is not less than fifty percent at any particular time

quote:

73.-(1) Nothing in this Act shall make it an offence to kill any animal in defence of human life or livestock.

quote:

(2) An animal shall not be deemed to have been killed by accident where the person killing it is a holder of a licence, permit or written authority, entitling him to hunt an animal of that specie.

quote:

(2) Any park warden, park ranger or ranger may, in the public interest, kill any problem animal in any place other than in a national park or the Ngorongoro Conservation Area