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| Mallon, D. | |
| Trophy hunting of CITES-listed species in Central Asia | |
| 2013 Full Book | |
The report is part of a project aiming to strengthen capacities to implement CITES, especially in Central Asia and to satisfy the CITES-related requirements of trading partners, to prevent overexploitation and to ensure legal international trade in wild fauna and flora does not exceed sustainable levels. The objective is to enhance the policies and regulations concerning trophy hunting in selected range States of the Argali _Ovis ammon_: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and to provide a framework for the establishment of sustainable hunting programmes that support conservation. This report is focused on the relevance of trophy hunting for conservation and associated local livelihoods. All five project countries are Parties to CITES, except Tajikistan, which has begun the accession process. Argali are the focus of the trophy hunting in the region and they represent the most expensive trophy in the five project countries. Other CITES-listed hunting species are Brown Bear _Ursus arctos_, Wolf _Canis lupus_, Musk Deer _Moschus moschiferus_, Eurasian Lynx _Lynx lynx_ (all mainly in Russia) and Houbara Bustard _Chlamydotis undulata_. Markhor _Capra falconeri _and Urial _Ovis orientalis_ have also been hunted at times but are not the object of regular trophy hunting programmes at present. Other widely hunted species are not listed in the CITES Appendices. A recent analysis by TRAFFIC of the CITES trade database showed that 10 245 hunting trophy items from species listed in the CITES Appendices were exported from the project countries between 2000 and 2010. Almost all trophy items consisted of Argali, Brown Bear and Wolf. Most were exported from Russia (9473 trophies), with smaller numbers from Tajikistan (705), Kyrgyzstan (668), and Kazakhstan (126), and 13 from Uzbekistan. |
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