Hunt for survival!
About 50 village conservation committees (vccs) in the under-developed districts of Chitral and Kohistan in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (nwfp) raised about us$144,000 in 2005 through trophy hunting of the flare-horn Kashmir markhor, an endangered species. In 1990, trophy hunting of the markhor was banned completely after it was included in the Appendix i (meaning "rare or endangered and in which trade is not permitted') of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (cites). Since then, the animal's population has increased due to conservation efforts that involved local communities of the mountainous regions.
Official sources claim population of the markhor has increased since 1990. And since the repeal of the ban in 1996, trophy hunting has brought money to people living under acute poverty
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