Import of Trophies into the EU

[AfricaHunting.com]

Information received from SCI and IUCN.

NAPHA has been in contact with our Ministry of Environment & Tourism, who is following up on this at the highest level.

Next week, 21 and 22 of June, the EU Member States will discuss a proposal by Germany to introduce severe restrictions on the importation of hunting trophies of non-threatened CITES species into the European Union (Annex B species). If adopted, the proposal will require EU hunters to obtain import permits for the importation of Annex B species into EU countries. This means that EU countries would have the ability to ban importation of these species simply by refusing to issue permits.

The discussions will take place in Brussels at the meeting of the EU Scientific Review Group on June 21st and the meeting of the Group of Experts of the Competent CITES Management Authorities on June 22nd.


Source: Namibia Professional Hunting Association (NAPHA)

 

[BRICKBURN]

Wow!

 

[Adrian]

And that's why I voted for Brexit!

 

[Dudders]

x2

 

[GuttormG]

We are not even members, but I am very sure we will get the absolutely strictest version of this rules should it be adopted by EU...

 

[Nyati]

Is Annex B the same as CITES 2 ?


CITES 1 - Import & Export Permit
Cheetah
Leopard
Cape Mountain Zebra
Black Rhinoceros
Black Footed Cat (Small Spotted Cat)


CITES 2 - Export Permit
All Leguans
All Primates
African Python
Blue Duiker
Red Lechwe
Hartman's Zebra
White Rhino
Elephant
Hippopotamus
Crocodile
Brown Hyena
Lion
Caracal
Serval
African Wild Cat
Pangolin
Cape Clawless Otter
Spotted Neck Otter
Crooned Crane
Bontebok

 

[CAustin]

Antis ar working hard to limit what hunters can do world wide! Makes me mad.

 

[Nyati]

They tried to ban all trophy imports a couple of years ago, and failed.

Let´s hope they fail again, otherwise it will be cull hunts.

 

[mark-hunter]

Update on the subject.

Source:

http://www.face.eu/about-us/resourc...oposal-restricting-the-importation-of-hunting

PRESS RELEASE - PROBLEMATIC PROPOSAL RESTRICTING THE IMPORTATION OF HUNTING TROPHIES INTO THE EU RAISES DEEP CONCERNS
27 Jun 2017
Brussels, 27 June 2017 – FACE welcomes that a majority of EUMember States rejected a proposal by the German Environment Ministry to introduce severe restrictions on the importation of hunting trophies for non-threatened CITES species into the European Union (Annex B species).

The proposal, which was discussed on the 20-21 June in Brussels by EU Member States’ CITES representatives during closed-door meetings, was not supported due to the obvious lack of scientific evidence. It has become apparent that the proposal was only designed to please the animal rights lobby who petitioned the German Environment Ministry during May 2017. More importantly, contrary to a CITESrecommendation adopted in 2016, there was no proper consultation with the affected countries, in particular the African countries that live with and conserve wildlife on a daily basis.

Speaking in Brussels, FACE Secretary General, Ludwig Willnegger said that: “The entire hunting community in Europe and abroad must continue to combat unjustified restrictions on the importation of hunting trophies, as this topic will be further discussed in the autumn of 2017. This proposal constitutes the purest form of neo-colonialism and paternalism”.

EU Governments should acknowledge that:

• Blanket bans or restrictions on trophy hunting can put at risk important benefits for both conservation and local livelihoods.
• A well-regulated trophy hunting system delivers benefits for both wildlife conservation and for the livelihoods and wellbeing of indigenous and local communities living with wildlife.
• Well-managed trophy hunting generates incentives and revenue for government, private and community landowners to maintain and restore wildlife as a land-use and to carry out conservation actions.
• Trophy hunting gives large areas of land “conservation value” and can help address ongoing biodiversity losses.
• In many areas, tourism alone cannot guarantee enough income for communities; trophy hunting combined with tourism can enormously increase the resources invested in nature conservation and anti-poaching interventions; and trophy hunting is frequently carried out in areas that are unsuitable for tourism.

In April 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) prepared a briefing paper for the European Parliament - “Informing Decisions on Trophy Hunting”.

FACE recently published a factsheet on trophy hunting, available online here.