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Where selective wildlife hunting is permitted, the economic returns from recreational hunting may be significant. Recreational hunting is considered a major economic activity in Europe and North America. In Germany, hunters spent about US $559 million, while in the United States, they spent about US $12 million. The income from game meat, from certain categories of animals in Sweden generated about US $61 million in 1987. In Canada Northwest Territory, the income from annual harvest in the 1980s was about US $25 million (Freese, 1998).

A species-specific wildlife tourism venture such as gorilla watching in Africa, generated hundreds of thousands of dollars (e.g. US $600,000 in park fees from 3,300 visitors that visited Bwindi-Impenetrable National Park) in Uganda in 1995 (Butynski & Kalina, 1998). Big game hunts in Africa (Zimbabwe and Tanzania) are considered to be a lucrative business. The income from the big games was used to manage the game parks and provide incentives to the local communities to conserve wildlife (Leaders-Williams, Kayera & Overton, 1996). This approach is now being emulated in scores of Asian countries also.

The safari hunting in Zimbabwe under the Communal Area Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE) programme generated about 1.5 million US dollars in 1995, and supported community resource management by capitalizing on the value of wildlife through tourism. In Kenya, the annual revenue of US $500 million from non-consumptive wildlife tourism was shared among the various national parks, the tourism industry as a whole and the indigenous communities (Milner-Guiland & Mace, 1998).

In <edit > allows a tourist to visit a game sanctuary, witness wildlife at close quarters, even though no harm should be done to the exotic wildlife species. The rules and regulations are rather stringent because the state government is alarmed with the phenomenal decline in the numbers of certain wildlife species and does not want to play with the unique biodiversity of the forests adjacent to the Western Ghats.

Let and help the wildlife recover then go hunt - its all abit too much in the balance at the moment I reckon.

Well, Martin,
I have to say your post belongs in the General Chat section of this SURFING forum. You're clearly trying to market a non-surfing travel package without establishing legitimate vendor status. That's unfair to the owner/operator of this forum, as well as, the legitimate vendors. It might even be illegal.

crap spam post.

But whatever, I think hunting tourism for $$ sucks big time. All it does is encourage unscrupulous operators to break the rules to make the bux.

Rich tourist hunters and fishermen take the absolute piss out of the resource in NZ, cause significant environmental damage, and IMO should f**k right off until they can play by the rules. dunno what it's like elsewhere but I suspect it's the same, where people think that paying the coin makes them immune from the rules and common courtesies.