Licence to kill: Foreigner claims trophy for hunting ibex
Lebanese national, Richard Haykel, hunted the ibex inside the Khunjerab National Park.
HUNZA:
As the trophy hunting season progresses in northern Pakistan, a foreigner hunted an ibex, taking the number of hunted animals to three this year.
“A Lebanese national, Richard Haykel claimed a trophy because he was successful in the hunt,” an official of the forest department told The Express Tribune on Thursday.
Haykel hunted the ibex inside the Khunjerab National Park, after paying $3000 as hunting fee.
An American had killed two markhors last month, one of the most prized wild animals in the world which carries a hunting fee of $55,000. The government collects the hunting fee, 80 per cent of which is given to the local community. “The share paid to the community is a kind of reward for protecting wildlife from illegal hunting and poaching,” said an NGO official in Gilgit, the capital of Gilgit-Baltistan where trophy hunting lasts from December to April.
Meanwhile, authorities have arrested at least four people in another remote valley for illegally hunting a markhor, sources told The Express Tribune.
The incident occurred in Karambar valley in Ghizer, about 200 kilometres from Gilgit. Apart from six months’ imprisonment, violators can also be fined according to wildlife laws.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 13th, 2012.
As the trophy hunting season progresses in northern Pakistan, a foreigner hunted an ibex, taking the number of hunted animals to three this year.
“A Lebanese national, Richard Haykel claimed a trophy because he was successful in the hunt,” an official of the forest department told The Express Tribune on Thursday.
Haykel hunted the ibex inside the Khunjerab National Park, after paying $3000 as hunting fee.
An American had killed two markhors last month, one of the most prized wild animals in the world which carries a hunting fee of $55,000. The government collects the hunting fee, 80 per cent of which is given to the local community. “The share paid to the community is a kind of reward for protecting wildlife from illegal hunting and poaching,” said an NGO official in Gilgit, the capital of Gilgit-Baltistan where trophy hunting lasts from December to April.
Meanwhile, authorities have arrested at least four people in another remote valley for illegally hunting a markhor, sources told The Express Tribune.
The incident occurred in Karambar valley in Ghizer, about 200 kilometres from Gilgit. Apart from six months’ imprisonment, violators can also be fined according to wildlife laws.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 13th, 2012.