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Blesbok and Blesbok Hunting

Blesbok, or Blesbuck, is one of the most popular antelopes with hunters in South Africa. However, harvesting this dweller of open spaces is not easy.

Africa’s Conservation Model Under Threat

Hunting is Conservation / Africa

The West needs to heed the voices of Africans calling for a sound understanding of Africa’s sustainable utilisation conservation policies and look beyond the emotional rhetoric before it is too late.

Hunting as a Wildlife Management Tool. By Cleve Cheney

Africa / Hunting is Conservation

There are very few natural habitats left in the world big enough to allow nature to regulate wildlife populations without any intervention from man. Even South Africa’s biggest national parks are too small to allow for this to happen. Smaller parks and private conservation areas may also not be afforded the luxury of a laissez-faire (“hands off – let nature take its course”) management approach.

Hunting after COVID-19: Survey Results Inspire Optimism

BookYourHunt / Europe / Africa

BookYourHunt.com is concerned about the challenges that the epidemic of COVID-19 presents to hunting, hunting tourism, and conservation activities funded by hunters’ dollars. To get a glimpse into post-COVID future, we surveyed about a 1000 hunters who book their hunts on our online marketplace, which comprise a representative sample of the consumers of the hunting tourism industry. And we found the answers, overall, highly encouraging.

What We Do In Africa

Africa / BookYourHunt / Hunting is Conservation

What does the hunting industry do to Africa? Protecting species and habitats, generating income, creating jobs, and even fighting climate change. That’s what we do.

Botswana’s Elephant Crisis

Africa / Hunting is Conservation

Botswana’s decision to lift the safari hunting ban has caused a lot of controversy. This post explores the reasons for human-elephant conflict in Botswana, and argues that trophy hunting is, at least at present, the optimal solution.

Good Times, Bad Times: Springbok hunting in Gordon-Cumming’s “Five Years in South Africa” and today

Hunting History / Africa / BookYourHunt

“The springbok is so termed by the colonists on account of its peculiar habit of springing or taking extraordinary bounds, rising to an incredible height in the air, when pursued”, wrote Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming in “Five Years of a Hunter’s Life in the Far Interior of South Africa”. The graceful antelope that has become the symbol of South Africa once covered the plains with its innumerable herds. Today it is mostly found on game farms, hunting concessions, national parks and protected areas, and the impressive “trek-bokken” is but a memory of times gone by. But are the good times of springbok hunting then or now?

Wyoming’s Grizzly Season: The Why’s and Why-Not’s

BookYourHunt / Hunting is Conservation

It finally happened – for the first time in 44 years a grizzly hunting season is approved in the Lower 48. This story is looking into the most common arguments for and against the hunt. The very limited number of animals to be harvested, tough hunting regulations, on the one hand, and a likely though decrease of overall bear mortality with the legal season (due to improved attitude towards bears by locals, and decreased infanticide) make BookYourHunt.com support the hunt.