in KP\u2019s Torghar
\n PESHAWAR
\nA US citizen has hunted a grey gorale for the first time in the country\u2019s history under the trophy hunting permit, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Wildlife Department said on Thursday. The animal was hunted down in KP\u2019s Torghar district and generated a revenue of $54,500. The department said that a total of six non-exportable permits had been issued for hunting grey gorale, generating total $398,500.
\nAs much as 80% of the revenue generated from the trophy hunting permit will be deposited in the account of the Conservation Committee.
\nThe 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.
\nThe 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.
\nThe 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\u2019s Wildlife Department allowed the hunting of six markhors, which generated $246,700 of which 80% of the proceeds were distributed among the local communities. \u2014 DNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
in KP\u2019s Torghar PESHAWAR A US citizen has hunted a grey gorale for the first time in the country\u2019s history under the trophy hunting permit, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Wildlife Department said on Thursday. The animal was hunted down in KP\u2019s Torghar district and generated a revenue of $54,500. The department said that a total of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-523229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n