"Sustainable hunting and National Parks are not opposites. There are two sides of same coin, "said the President of the CIC Tropical Game Commission, Dr. Rolf D. Baldus in a press release of the International Council for Game and Wildlife Management (CIC).
It said the CIC responded "to the increasing reports of dramatic declines in wildlife populations in Africa's national parks. This few days ago a research project of the University of Cambridge was published by an average of about 60% of large mammals in the park lost in Africa since 1970 have gone. The reasons lie primarily in poaching for the bushmeat trade and under-funding of parks. "
This perspective is in the public perception of the trophy hunting abroad regularly overlooked. Instead, often made hunting and undifferentiated responsible for the decline of game with no distinction in legitimate trophy hunting, poaching or legitimate commercial meat hunting
The CIC republished. "The International Council for Wildlife Conservation and Wildlife supports national parks, where they make sense. However, he disputes against start-ups, if not assured from the outset the long-term financing or is such parks are not acceptable to the population. National parks are often not even bring back the money that is spent on tourism infrastructure. In such cases it is better to allow there to sustainable trophy hunting. With minimal environmental impact and without infrastructure this will provide maximum income. This gives the rural people an incentive to preserve the game. In West Africa and Kenya in the wild stocks have declined the most. This is significant because there, the hunt is mostly prohibited. In southern Africa, however there are some recorded gains, not least because of the income the landowners and local flow to the hunt. National Parks are not islands. If the wild stocks are outside the protected areas due to poor management and hunting bans, then usually the stock is decreasing in the parks. "
The relationship of Hege (here primarily but not only in the sense of protection from poaching) and income from sustainable trophy hunting is unfortunately still too little weight in the Western media, although talking the examples of countries with a largely hunting ban for themselves .
The CIC seeks to stakeholders in this context to get to the table and noticed. "The CIC called on African governments, aid donors and conservation organizations to consider in conservation projects, the sustainable utilization of wildlife, including hunting, this is also consistent the requirements of the Convention on Biological Diversity. About the community-based wildlife protection in Africa, the CIC has submitted, together with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently launched a study that evaluates the experience of recent decades. It impressively demonstrates its potential for nature conservation and poverty reduction "
more information
CIC press release
CIC-/FAO-Publikation
hunting weapons network. Hunting abroad in Africa and its opponents
hunting weapons Network: International hunting in Africa - sustainable for wildlife and people
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