The government of Pakistan has decided to sell the license to trophy hunters against a reserve fee of $25,000 each.
LAHORE – The Pakistani government has decided to sell permits to trophy hunters for a reserve fee of $25,000 (5.6 Millions) each.
The move comes at a time when the government has decided to allow trophy hunting of endangered urial deer from December 15 to March 31.
However, the federal government would sell off trophy hunting license at the Punjab Wildlife Department’s Lahore office on 5 December, as per reports.
Trophy hunters seeking permits will have to deposit a $5,000 reserve fee while submitting their applications to be eligible to take part in the auction. Permits will be issued to the highest bidders.
While in 2021, $18,000 was set as a reserve fees for trophy hunting of an urial deer.
The people who win the permits won’t be able to hunt anything but urial deer. Officials said hunters who break the rules about trophy hunting will have to pay a fine. Eighty percent of the money received from the trophy hunting program goes to local communities, which spend it on education, health and development projects.
The remaining 20% of the money will be put into the government account