| Sport hunting for leopard is allowed in Uganda. | | | | Service. According to his words, sport hunting will |
| Everyone can pay $50,000 to have this elegant | | | | even help to save leopards. Locals often poison |
| spotty predator as a trophy and get its fell for | | | | predators with toxic, arranging massive round-up |
| "personal use" from now on . Originally authorities | | | | to revenge for ruined livestock. But having found |
| asked for a permission to issue 50 licenses a | | | | out that a license to hunt for leopards costs a lot, |
| year, but CITES - Convention on the International | | | | peasants will understand that it will be much more |
| Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and | | | | profitable to save these spotty animals rather |
| Flora has allowed leopard hunting but restricted | | | | than to kill for certain. Wealthy foreigners will pay |
| the number of licenses to 28. | | | | for the hunting a lot and means will go for locals' |
| According to official information, 2,700 leopards | | | | needs", - at least once authorities explain their |
| dwell on the territory of Uganda. The officials | | | | decision. |
| consider that the number is big enough to save | | | | However it has disgruntled local nature defenders. |
| species from extinction because of hunting and will | | | | Who has counted 2,700 leopards in Uganda and |
| be productive of much good for the country | | | | how has he managed to? And what if not even |
| budget as well. | | | | 28 leopards won't be counted in our forests. |
| "Hardly any of Ugandans will take part in this | | | | Ecologists suggest that CITES' decision is a |
| hunting - the license is very expensive. We figure | | | | bankrupt to all manner of understanding. |
| on rich hunters visiting us. They are easy to | | | | According to the information they have, the |
| control - each of them will show his animal jacket | | | | number of leopards in the country is "wretched". |
| as a trophy", - says Sam Mwanza, the executive | | | | "Heaven only knows what has the morrow in |
| director of Uganda Flora and Fauna Security | | | | store for these animals" - they say. |