A US national has, for the first time in the country's history, hunted a grey goral under an official trophy hunting permit, generating $54,500 in revenue in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Torghar district, the provincial Wildlife Department said on Thursday.
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Wildlife Department said that a total of six non-exportable permits had been issued for hunting grey gorale, generating a total $398,500.
As much as 80% of the revenue generated from the trophy hunting permit will be deposited in the account of the Conservation Committee.
The project aims to ensure the development of the local population and the protection of rare wildlife, added the department.
A day earlier, a Russian hunter hunted a Kashmiri Markhor in the Gahirat-Golen conservancy of Chitral.
The foreigner had obtained a hunting licence for the Markhor at a cost of $68,000. The horns of the hunted Markhor measure 41 inches in length.
Markhor, a wild goat native to high-altitude monsoon forests in central Asia, is highly valued for their majestic horns. The markhor is a large capra species native to Central Asia, the Karakoram, and the Himalayas.
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites) in October 2024 approved the hunting of six markhors under the non-exportable quota in Kohistan and Chitral.
In light of the decision, the KP's Wildlife Department allowed the hunting of six markhors, which generated $246,700 of which 80% of the proceeds were distributed among the local communities.
