From the www.huntingreport.com

Cambodia Opens After 55-Year Closure

(posted January 29, 2009)

The first hunters in 55 years are expected to hunt Cambodia this coming December. Felix Barrado Zabas of Nsok Safaris has been working with Cambodian authorities for several years to establish a sustainable use hunting program and those efforts are about to benefit the entire hunting community, as well as conservation in Cambodia.

Barrado began marketing the hunts at the Safari Club International Convention in Reno last week. He expects to make a formal announcement with the Cambodian authorities in February. At that time a final list of huntable species should be available. That list may include banteng, guar, seven species of deer, leopard, jungle cats, bears and more. (Note: not all may be importable to the US.) Barrado already has secured exclusive rights to a huge hunting area and will be finalizing his camp and other details in the coming months.

Barrado deserves great accolades for bringing this country online for international hunters. The first hunts there will surely be true adventures for the right kind of hunter. For the complete story on this new destination, see the coming February issue of The Hunting Report. - Barbara Crown, Editor



Seloushunter

Gaur!

Now that would be something!

George

Some game camera pix, including gaur, from Cambodia on a WWF site:
http://www.worldwildlife.org/s...odiacameratrap2.html

I've been dreaming of "yesteryear" and all of the potential adventures of Cambodia after reading "Asian Hunter" by Capt. John Brandt (and now I'm looking for a copy of "Horned Giants"). I will never be able to afford it, but I would donate a kidney (anyone need one) to be able to hunt wild cattle in Asia.

The only part of Capt. Brandt's book that is hard to swallow is that it reads like an obituary for most species. It was published in the 80's and every chapter ends with something like "just a few years ago the ____ were plentiful, but now only a handful remain."

Hello,
For Asian hunting reading I strongly recommend "Tracks of an Intruder" by Gordon Young.
GYoung was a northamerican who was born (or lived since child...) in Thailand.
Delicious writing about jungle hunting and living with the "jungle people", the best hunters in the world as G Young said!!

PH

The above G Young is of no relation to me.

I can assure you my friends that now Felix is taking bookings for 2010.It is not cheap. It is not going to be easy hunting but it is going to be f...ing fantastic

I dropped this outfitter an email....no reply as of yet. Any idea on costs for this once in a lifetime trip?

tendrams

I think the costs for the super safari are about 89000$. BUT i WOULD NOT SWEAR IT SO SEND THE OUTFFITRE A MESSAGE. hIS EMAIL IS nsoksafaris@terra.es

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/i...rotected-forest.html


Is this old news from April 6th??? Read Game Hunter Jumps the Gun, hopefully everything has been worked out. Sounds like an amazing place to hunt.