Quail hunting: Wildlife Dept bans new licences

FAISALABAD: The Wildlife Department has banned issuance of new licences and re-issuance of old licences for quail hunting.

The department imposed the ban after the Lahore High Court’s Bahawalpur Bench cancelled a notification for increasing the licence fee for quail hunting. Sources said the department had increased the licence fee for shooting various birds from Rs300 to Rs2,000.

The licence fee for netting quails was raised to Rs10,000 from Rs1,000 and the fee for selling quails to Rs25,000 from Rs2,500.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 20^th, 2013.