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Roy Sparks: (l) a canned hunting (any restriction of an animal’s natural movement for the purpose of trophy hunting) in any form is illegal;

Roy Sparks: (i) a predator may not be hunted unless it belongs to a wild and sustainable population (It exists as a naturally interacting member of a wild and sustainable population in an area large enough for it to breed, forage and hunt freely and where there is a natural state of balance...

Roy Sparks: Government Notice MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND TOURISM No. 9 2010 AMENDMENT OF REGULATIONS RELATING TO NATURE CONSERVATION: NATURE CONSERVATION ORDINANCE, 1975 Under section 84 of the Nature Conservation Ordinance, 1975 (Ordinance 4 of 1975), read with sections 27 and 36 of that...

The "new " leopard regulation was adopted specifically to close loopholes. The law is very clear- no leopard hunts with dogs are allowed in Namibia, - neither problem leopard hunts nor follow up hunts on wounded leopard. This was explicitly tested by an Namibian hunting operator who approached...

Apologies from Roy Sparks - Sparks Hounds (http://www.africahunting.com/index.php?threads/apologies-from-roy-sparks-sparks-hounds.2151/) Discussion in 'News & Announcements' started by Roy Sparks, Feb 17, 2010 "Dear friends, I have done a bit of soul searching over the last day or so and feel...

Mr. Sparks <Your increased leopard quota from 150 to 250 is attributable virtually entirely to the endeavours and sacrifices of South African houndsmen who introduced this practise to Namibia.....> The Namibian CITES quota for leopard was increased from 150 to 250 long before the trials with...

Red Leg- that is exactly the point . An ethical leopard hunt with hounds is a superb experience-however if the hounds men were not willing or capable to impose transparent self-control measures- the writing was on the wall that hound hunting would be disallowed again in Namibia. There were some...

An e-mail written to Mr. Sparks in January 2014 Dear Mr. Sparks, NAPHA was very proactive and even convinced to give leopard hunting with hounds a fair chance – a trial period. Why? At that very point in time it was an established fact that the population levels of both, the leopard and...

1.) The rhinos in Namibia neither belong to Mr. Thormaehlen, nor to MET or NAPHA- they belong to all Namibian citizens, they are a national resource and asset! This implies that every Namibian citizen has the right to be transparently informed about the sustainable use of these endangered...

Action Bob, My surname might sound Chinese but this does not imply that I am a follower of the communist philosophy- on the contrary. If you read my thread carefully you would have noticed that I talked about the future and “should”- so there can be no doubt that I had but no intention to...

If one wants to quantify the success of any project, institution or individual- the rate of success depends on three key questions: 1.) In the nucleus, the essence of the project, is the question <why?> 2.) in the second sphere around that nucleus is the question <how?> 3.) and within the...