American hunter hunts markhor at Gahiret-Golen conservancy
CHITRAL: An American hunter hunted a nine-year old kashmir markhor with 38-inches horn in Gahiret-Golen community-managed game reserve here on Sunday for which he had obtained a hunting permit from the wildlife department of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at the cost of 125000 US dollars.
Divisional forest officer of Chitral Wildlife Division, Farooq Nabi told Dawn that the American national Robert Myles Hall had arrived here the other days and spent a number of days to tag a marhor of the trophy size near Gahiret village with the help of the local community and successfully hunted down the trophy with his automatic rifle from a close range.
He said that it was the third trophy hunting of markhor during the current season in Chitral while previously, another American national had hunted a markhor in Toshi-Shasha conservancy in December last and a Russian hunter in the first week of February in the same conservancy.
He said that 80 percent of the fee of the hunting permit goes to the local community which they spend on their collective well-being through the village conservation committee and in lieu of it they played role in the conservation of the species.
