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The decrease in the number of shot animals This represents a surface area of 140,000 km2 or four times the size of Tanzania’s national parks.Ģ. In Tanzania, 110 out of 154 hunting zones have been abandoned because they are no longer profitable for big game/trophy hunting. In contrast, countries such as Kenya, Gabon, Cote d’Ivoire and Botswana ( subsequently changed) chose to close big game hunting.Īmongst countries still offering big game hunting, ecosystem degradation and decline of game species have led to the non-use of significant portions of former big game hunting areas – 72% in Tanzania and 40% in Zambia. Countries such as Senegal, Niger, Chad, CAR, DR Congo, Sudan, Malawi and Angola have lost 90% of land formerly available to big game hunting. The progressive disappearance of big game/trophy hunting zones due to farming activities linked to population growth. In addendums to his IUCN report titled ‘Africa is changing: should its protected areas evolve? Reconfiguring the protected area in Africa’, wildlife vet and protected areas consultant Bertrand Chardonnet proposes that big game/trophy hunting is in a state of decline and is no longer able to pay for its ecological footprint, leading to poaching and habitat loss in hunting concessions.Ĭhardonnet’s proposal is against the background of the following three indicators:ġ.