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Test Applicants Needed for Namibian Lion Import Permits

(posted July 15, 2017)

If you are a US hunter and have hunted lion in Namibia since January 2016, or you intend to hunt lion in Namibia this season or next, contact Conservation Force immediately. As we have reported since December 2015, the US Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) has listed the lion as threatened with a special rule requiring an import permit. Test permit applications have been submitted for most African lion-range nations with a sport hunting program, but not for Namibia. Conservation Force seeks US hunters to apply for these permits and pave the way for importations.

"We need test permit applicants to establish lion trophy imports from Namibia," says John J. Jackson, III, President of Conservation Force. Conservation Force provides pro bono assistance in completing the permit application and submitting supporting information to the USFWS. Please call 504-837-1233 or email cf@conservationforce.org if you have or expect to have a lion trophy from Namibia and wish to import it.

If you have taken a lion elsewhere since January 2016, you should also contact Conservation Force for assistance with your import application. This is the only way that the hunting community will be able to keep FWS moving forward with their review and approval of game population management in range nations and the issuing of import permits from those nations. - Barbara Crown, Editor-in-Chief

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