Snow Leopard Survival Strategy - Panthera

Ungulate Trophy Hunting Programs
Establish or restructure trophy hunting programs that
are sustainable, well monitored and provide return to
local people as an incentive to protect ungulates. Community
co-management of hunting program should be
encouraged where ever appropriate.
Research required prior to taking action:
• Consolidate available information on population status
of wild ungulates in the target area, include data
on hunting pressure, competition with domestic livestock,
and others
• Determine sustainable trophy harvest level using
scientifically appropriate methods, combined with approximate
– but objective and periodic – population
monitoring
• Assess trophy hunting demand and potential value via
market analysis
• Determine local (tribal) social structure and their authoritative
role in hunt management
• Conduct biological baseline survey of ungulates to enable
impact monitoring,
• Conduct biological baseline survey of snow leopard
presence and relative density
• Conduct socio-economic assessment of target community
to enable impact monitoring
Action
Guidelines
Policy level
Community level
Steps:
• Engage government agencies responsible
for hunt management
• Review hunting laws and propose
changes needed to ensure financial
benefits go to local communities
• Establish transparent policies under
which to develop community co-managed
trophy hunting
• Establish harvest monitoring system
and database by which harvest quotas
are annually set
• Assess current import policies of most
important markets (US, EU) for trophies
of CITES-listed species (note:
the US and EU currently do not allow
the import of a number of threatened
species and these differ from range
state to range state depending on local
management)
• Assess current levels of legal and illegal hunting by
community and evaluate motives
• Introduce community to potential economic benefits
of trophy hunting and need to conserve resource
• Examine potential (legal and biological) and local
desire for including subsistence harvest by community
as part of hunt program
• Assess local capacity to participate in delivering
high quality hunting experience to trophy hunters,
and take steps to raise capacity
• With government, hunting organizations and community
input, develop trophy hunting plan with a
financial distribution structure that is equitable and
transparent
• Develop local capacity to conduct wildlife surveys,
monitoring, and reporting to ensure sustainability
Stakeholders:
• Local and national governments
• Tribal authorities
• Hunting organizations
• NGO’s, intergovernmental organisations
(IUCN), international conventions
(CITES)
• International NGO’s
• Legal hunters
• Poachers
• Herders
• Tourism operators
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