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Belgrade CIC Trophy Hunting Workshop ReportBy Gerhard R DammThe Belgrade Trophy Hunting Workshop, a joint undertaking of the CIC Commissions on TropicalGame, Sustainable Use, and Trophies & Exhibitions and African Indaba, brought together more than onehundred hunters and experts from around the world – amongst them representatives from Iran and China –for two mornings during the 54 th General Assembly of the CIC.The organizers were particularly pleased by the presence of Jan Heino, Assistant Director-General, andDr Rene Czudek of the Forestry Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UnitedNations, Stephen Nash the Chief of the Capacity Building Unit of the CITES Secretariat and representativesof IUCN The World Conservation Union. From the International Hunting Organizations, Dallas Safari Clubwas represented by past president Ben Carter and Executive Director Gray Thornton. Thornton alsorepresented the Boone & Crockett Club, the Foundation for North American Wild Sheep had sentPresident Ray Lee, and Chairman Peter Flack participated for Rowland Ward. Unfortunately, Safari ClubInternational (SCI), who had originally confirmed attendance through Dr. Doug Yajko, Chairman of the SCITrophy Records Committee, informed the organizers a week before the event that budgetary reasonsprevented SCI representatives to participate.John Jackson III, President of the CIC Sustainable Use Commission, and Dr Francois Schwarzenbach,CIC Vice President, chaired the first day.Gerhard Damm of the CIC South African Delegation gave the participants an in depth overview about“Trophy Hunting – Past, Present and Future” in a comprehensive presentation. You can read the full text ofDamm’s presentation in this follow-up edition of African Indaba on page 4.“We are here, because there is a need for critical analysis”, said Damm, and “trophy hunting will faceserious problems, if we fail to establish trophy hunting as conservation tool, if our actions are perceived asuncivilized and decadent, and if they are seen as morally or biologically wrong.”The objective of the meeting in Belgrade was to start a consultative process, well aware of the fact that itwould be painful. CIC members and the hunters around the world need to critically review entrenchedconcepts and unconventional out-of-the-box thinking must be encouraged. There is no substitute forpermanent dialogue and interaction with scientists and researchers on the one hand and with other huntingorganizations on the other hand. And if evidence points towards changing traditional concepts then changemust be for what hunters and the CIC stand for.With his remarks Damm followed the statements given in the mid April CIC press conference, where CICPresident Dieter Schramm, CIC Director General Kai Wollscheid and Dr Rudolf Guertler, Professor FriedrichReimoser, Professor Klaus Hackländer and Dr Peter Lebersorger informed the media that the CIC willconsider future changes in trophy scoring. For example, the so-called “Beauty-and Penalty-Points” may beeliminated and the age of the trophy animal could be included in the scoring methods. Furthermore, it iscontemplated to discontinue the ad-hoc scoring commissions. Hunting ground owners as well as huntersmight have to submit evidence with respect to the origin of the hunted animals, i. e. whether they come froma free range environment or from fenced areas.Damm mentioned that Dr. A Bubenik had brought up the issue of trophy scoring already decades ago inthe supplemental article “Socio-Biological Versus Hunters’ Viewpoints in Antlers and Horns” published inWerner Trense’s 1989 book “The Big Game of the World” (Paul Parey Verlag, Germany). Bubenik thenclaimed “that the designers of the trophy scoring formulas were all more experienced as hunters, rather thanas biologically minded sportsmen or naturalists”. In view of the mentioned issues around horned and antleredgame, Bubenik’s concluding remarks, written almost 20 years ago, are still valid today. African Indaba ispresently negotiating with the publishers for permission to make Bubenik’s article available online on theAfrican Indaba webpage. We will inform the readers, when this important paper can be downloaded.In concluding his key-note presentation, Damm said “We need contemplate what threatens to destroy thehunters’ image. We need to establish the real meaning of trophy hunting. We need to reaffirm our credibilityas conservationists and true hunters. We owe it to the wild spaces and the game we pursue therein. We138
owe it to ourselves. We owe it to conservation, because sustainable trophy hunting is an indispensableconservation and wildlife management tool in the 21 st century.”Damm’s presentation was reviewed by Don Causey, president of The Hunting Report from an Americanpoint of view and by Dr Karlheinz Betz, Editor-in-Chief of Wild & Hund from a European angle. Both reviewsalso form part of this issue of African Indaba. Be sure to read these comments on pages 11 and 12.Readers will also be interested that “The Hunting Report“also initiated a web-forum in the meantime on itswebsite www.huntingreport.com to enable a broad section of its international readers to participate in thediscussion of the topic, in particular in connection with the African buffalo trophy scoring methods, whichwere heavily criticized as leading towards the unsustainable removal of pre-breeding and breeding bulls fromthe populations.Dr. Betz’ review in German is printed in this issue (page 12) in the original German version. His mainpoints are summed up as follows: He concurs that all involved in hunting need to be pre-occupied with theimage of hunting. Betz mentions that trophy hunting and hunting trophies gained public notice at the 1937International Hunting Exhibition in Berlin, which served to bring international game biologists together for thefirst time.He agrees with Damm that hunters need to be revise trophy scoring methods which lead to the hunting ofyoung (pre-breeding or breeding) trophy animals. He suggests that this could be achieved by scrutinizing thedifferent trophy scoring methods with respect to the relevance or absence of age factors. He also suggeststhat subjective aesthetic criteria like in the CIC cervidae formulas be replaced by “age points”, respectivelypenalty points be introduced, if a trophy animal has been taken before the species-specific target age.According to Dr Betz opinion, the changing of formulas and trophy scoring methods does have a negativeconnotation. Changes may complicate or even prevent the comparison of trophies measured according to“old” standards with those measured according to “new” standards. This would be, however, according to DrBetz, negligible in view of the importance of the general relevance of biologically correct trophy scoringmethods.In two interfacing speeches, Gray Thornton, Professional Member of The Boone & Crockett Club (USA),explained the Boone & Crockett Club Philosophy for Hunting Trophies and Peter Flack, Chairman ofRowland Ward’s went into the origin and purpose of Rowland Ward’s Book of Trophy Records.The second key-note presentation of the day was given by Gray Thornton in his capacity as ExecutiveDirector of the Dallas Safari Club and the Dallas Ecological Foundation. Thornton’s passionate speech,which kept the listeners spell bound, explored the “Essence of Hunting”.Thornton first analyzed the question of “Why We Hunt” and how this may affect our hunting attitudes. Heprovocatively asked whether the trophy recording systems are an Achilles Heel of huntingIn continuation, Thornton tried to provide answers to the question “what determines a successful huntingexperience” and led the audience through the six stages of a hunter citing personal experiences from hisdecades of hunting experiences.Of interest in the context of the workshop was the “Trophy Stage”, where according to Thornton huntingsuccess is judged by quality, not quantity, and record books may become a means to define such success.Yet, according to Thornton, the objective for all hunters should be the “Sportsman Stage” and the “Give BackStage”. The first one measures success by the quality of a total outdoor experience, and not by the momentwhen a trigger is pulled or the trophy obtained. The latter one brings wildlife conservation and habitatprotection into special focus, just as the sharing and passing of the values and traditions of hunting to theyoung hunters and the people around us.You can read the full text of Gray Thornton’s presentation on page 14 of this issue.The concluding hour of the first day’s meeting saw animated discussions and contributions from the floorcovering a wide spectrum of fields and, as may be imagined, sometimes with contrasting opinions.Representatives of European, Asian, African and American Hunting Associations made their views known,as well as individual participants.During the second day, Dr. Rolf Baldus, President of the CIC Tropical Game Commission chaired anotheranimated couple of hours of discussion.Peter Flack, Chairman of Rowland Ward, said with respect to public perception of hunting that „everyorganization has an image – if the organization does not manage it, somebody else will do it and this139
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