Most of the bushmeat from poaching is sold out of the area as people interviewed indicated that 85 per cent of their food supplies was sourced from crops and not wildlife.
73 per cent of poachers use military firearms while 13 per cent used wire snares. It had been established that poachers access of firearms both legally and illegally.
There is also illegal hunting which is also conducted by licensed hunters. Licensed hunters harvested twice as much as the allocation of the quota. This had been attributed to monitoring which had been compromised due to poor salaries which were also irregular.
Despite the poachers indicating that the risk of being arrested was high, actual arrest were low.
Poached meat was mostly traded in Copperbelt, Livingstone and Lusaka. Other contraband go as far as neighboring countries such as the DRC where demand was very high.
Despite consumers being aware that most bush meat was illegally sourced and associated with health risks, they had continued consuming it.
And the in another development, DNPW has since normalized the issue on operational funds to allow a team from the Department had travelled to check on the rhino’s that were being brought in from Zimbabwe.
“Most of the bushmeat from poaching is sold out of the area as people interviewed indicated that 85 per cent of their food supplies was sourced from crops and not wildlife”
Hahaha. “We are mostly vegetarians,” said the hunter, stroking his AK47 with one hand, while gnawing on a lettuce-wrapped zebra bone held in his other hand.
Licensed hunters harvested??? Gotta love that phrase…
Bottom line, you have military weapons in the thousands held by vegetarians whom no one monitors and a foreign market in a war zone. Hmm. In the days of barter, one would be able to work out where the guns for food program was most active. LOL.
What do you expect when there is so much poverty?
And, who was compensated and how much, when huge tracks of land are declared ‘Game Parks’ or ‘Wildlife Reserves’.
The government of Tanzania has evicted 40,000 Masai from the Ngorongoro crater, where they’ve lived for centuries, to make way for a hunting company run by Prince Andrew and Jordan royal family. This is the neocolonial face of globalisation.
Also, how odd that I’m reading this article in Lusaka Times, when a few hours ago BBC 5 Live had an interview with the parents of some British dude shot by poachers.
Google: masai evicted ngorongoro prince andrew
its always small thieves that are hanged, the real thieves are out there and you know how diplomatic bags are used to finish our animals. remember GBM and the airport scandal?, the strong room at wasnt strong any more at chilanga? the chinese are finishing our animals not these small ones youre concentrating on vilifying
This is what happens when you do not practice sustainable tourism…the locals do not see the importance of wildlife….you appoint dull cadres like Jean Kapata to oversee the ministry.
You are happy to sell hunting licenses for a few thousands that you put in your pockets for what?