Bongo Hunting?

[grand veneur]

Bongo hunting is expensive due to the remote areas where they are living! So the expenses for the outfitter is very high like building camp, making roads and the difficult weather is hurting the equipment very badly.

Plus the effort on anti poaching si every high on many areas more difficult to organise compared savanna.

May be, but I am not entirely convinced.

Regardless of the price, I am not interested in Bongo hunting, but at that on dwarf buffaloes.

 

[mark-hunter]

May be, but I am not entirely convinced.

me too.

 

[kae701]

I always have doubts when poaching/antipoaching is concerned.
I can describe poaching as "local guerilla warfare against animals", for financial or survival reason with collecting bush meat.

To beat guerilla you need extremely high and trained force of "regular troops" or rangers, and clear rules of engagments, and armed response possibility

Availability of patrol vehicles is expensive. Air patrol even more (helicopter).
For all that: fuel supplies, wages, comms (talkie walkies).

Too many times I have seen photos of locally employed rangers in Africa armed with sticks.
Overall I have doubts.

In any case, it would be good for outfitter to have public presentation, of antipoaching efforts he makes.
But when I see sticks, I am not impressed of the efforts taken. It is not simple, I know. Or easy. But still...

It's very different from area to an other so I can't talk for everyone. Helicopter and Ultralight plane a pretty much useless in the Congolian Rain forest because you will see nothing...

The biggest threat are cables that the poachers are putting everywhere and after the team with dogs.

We are in forest galleria so more open country their the use of helicopter and ultralight plane is very important is why we corporate with African Park to protect the all region.

 

[kae701]

May be, but I am not entirely convinced.

Regardless of the price, I am not interested in Bongo hunting, but at that on dwarf buffaloes.

We don't have any dwarf where we are they are the Central savanna Buffalo and it's with us the same price except the trophy fees whatever you hunt

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

The allure of the rain forrest and hunting the specialised animals you find there is very high. I am quite comfortable to concede that this is a difficult hunt in a difficult area and not the most comfortable terrain to be in. Costs would be high for the outfitter, and of course they have to ensure your safety. This sort of hunt is not for the economy seeker.

 

[grand veneur]

We don't have any dwarf where we are they are the Central savanna Buffalo and it's with us the same price except the trophy fees whatever you hunt

Western, central or whatever all this Buffaloes are called, I know this species. I shot some in Burkina Faso. It's only about Dwarf Buffaloes and I have contacts for a possible test hunt in Congo. Wait and see what suggestions will come,...and the price !

As far hunting in rain forest is concerned, I have hunted in Malaysia several times. May be it is different in Africa, but hunting in the jungle was not too material and personnel intensive, especially when it came to hunting buffaloes on the border of the forest.The success rate in the forest is certainly lower than in open terrain.You often spent a long time on an Machan before you saw something.

 

[mark-hunter]

@grand veneur

Interesting.
What are the huntable game species in Malaysia?
The expected overall cost?
Are there any outfitters there?

 

[grand veneur]

Officially there was no organized hunt for foreigners in Malaysia.

Gun ownership is extremely strictly regulated in Malaysia and hunting was only possible with a special authorization from the police chief of Kuala Lumpur and the sultan of the province Pahang.