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African Indaba Vol 6 Afriican Indaba e-Newslletter Vollume 6, Number 4 Page 1 AFRICAN INDABA Volume 6, Issue No 4 eNewsletter July 2008 Dedicated to the People and Wildlife of Africa vesting bulls which have passed their prime and are not Trophy Scoring and the Afri- “needed” as breeding bulls in the herds anymore, respectively have been ejected from the herd. These bulls – usually over ten can Buffalo years of age – have not only passed on their genes, but are also Editorial by Gerhard R Damm harder to hunt. Moreover the trophy of such a bull sports usually a fully hardened boss with only a small gap between the horn Regular readers of African Indaba may remember the ar- bases. The CIC, Rowland Ward and many other international ticles of Kevin Robertson and Winston Taylor in last year’s num- hunting associations consider that giving more weight to a well ber 3 issue of African Indaba. Craig Boddington also discussed developed boss will encourage hunters to hunt older bulls. I measuring systems favoring the shooting of pre-prime bulls and don’t want to omit, however, that average boss width varies con- disturbing herd structure with a selection of highly experienced siderably in regional phenotypes and hunters should also assess African professional hunters in his now well-distributed DVD the gap between the left and right boss. “Boddington on Buffalo 2”. Tanzanian PH Rainer Josch took up I was rather astonished to read in SCI’s Safari Times the topic in his recent DVD “Mountain Buffalo” (see review in this about a “comparison of the SCI method with one of its competi- issue). Rowland Ward’s initiative regarding a revision of the tors” [sic] and furthermore that an evaluation of the trophies in scoring system for African Buffalo got the attention of buffalo the SCI record book has shown that the trophy quality resp. boss hunters everywhere and many positive comments and sugges- measurements did not show any significant variation over the tions have been received. past decades. It is more than peculiar that one tries to prove the The question certainly is not “who has the better scoring correctness of a scoring system by simply creating average sta- system” but rather “how can we modify the present scoring me- tistical values from within this very system. That you shouldn’t do thods so that the buffalo herds in Africa maintain a healthy popu- this is one of the first lessons students hear when they read lation structure, allowing us and future generations of hunters to Statistics. sustainably harvest mature trophy buffalo bulls”. As a second Kevin Robertson commented recently again the current objective we need to create scientifically meaningful statistical Continued on Page 2 evidence concerning this harvest. Contents Vol. 6, Issue 4 Page Trophy Scoring and the African Buffalo 1 CIC Markhor Award 3 European Charter on Hunting and Biodiversity 4 Exotic Wildlife Association – Sahara Conservation Fund 5 Benefits for People and Wildlife: Sustainable Use Options 6 Zambia Lion Project: Wish List 2008 7 Addax (Addax nasomaculatus) 8 Review of Options for Managing the Impacts of Locally Overabundant Elephant Populations 10 With a Population of 50 Million in 2020, Kenya is Doomed 11 South Africa Imposes National Moratorium Photo 1: Mature bull with solid boss (Spread 36”; Boss on Rhino Horn 12 14” ‐ observe the relatively narrow boss gap News from Africa 13 h h CIC Edmond Blanc Awards 2008 15 In order to achieve the objective Rowland Ward works New Landmark Satellite Report 16 closely together with the CIC International Council for Game and CITES Trophy Importation Crisis Averted 17 Wildlife Conservation and a number of highly qualified scientists Namibia’s Conservancies Deliver 19 in the field. The general consensus so far points towards har- Mountain Buffalo – Wilderness Hunting in Tanzania 20 For hunter-conservationists and all people who are interested in the conservation, management and the sustainable use of Africa’s wild natural resources. The distribution of African Indaba is supported by the International Council for Wildlife Conservation CIC and Conservation Force Afriican Indaba e-Newslletter Vollume 6, Number 4 Page 2 Continued from Page 1 again repeat that we need to reconsider the scoring methods for Trophy Scoring and the African Buffalo by Gerhard R Damm the African Buffalo – Rowland Ward has taken the initiative a year ago and the process, albeit not finished, has created the high ranking bulls in the SCI book – (in particular nos 1, 3, 10 much needed awareness and public debate. This at least is one and 17). None of these bulls had a hard boss – so he pointedly positive outcome and I am sure that at the end of this debate we asked “I am not too sure how you measure something which is will have a scoring method which does justice to the population not there”. Robertson and a good number of other buffalo ex- dynamics of the African Buffalo. perts suggest that none of these bulls is older than 7 years, and South African taxidermist Rodney Kretzschmar sent me they have been killed long before having had a chance to breed. a series of photographs which underline Robertson’s point – I have reproduced four here with Rodney’s kind permission. The trophy scoring issue is, however, not limited to the African Buffalo – this was the clear outcome of the workshops and meetings during the General Assembly of the CIC in Marra- kech end of April. Since I have been appointed as coordinator of the CIC Commission Exhibitions and Trophies at that meeting, I will tackle the task with this vision in mind: An innovative approach to trophy hunting, trophy evalua- tion and trophy monitoring will concentrate on scientifically viable trophy measurements focusing on methods which provide on one hand comprehensive and species-specific biological data and on the other hand the means to intelli- gently use and interpret these data to serve regionally and globally as key wildlife management tool, as indicator of sustainable trophy hunting practices and as a bridge for Photo 2: After boiling and cleaning the skull of a cooperation with the IUCN Sustainable Use Specialist and young bull; cartilage dissolved and the boss gap Species Specialist Groups. is several inches wide (Spread 36” Boss 13+” I said in my presentation in Marrakech that existing sys- tems should not be changed for the sake of change, but also highlighted that every system needs to adapt to changing cir- cumstances in order to remain relevant. Changes need to be based on one side on significant new knowledge about game, game populations, game genetics, zoogeography and the socio- biological importance of horns and antlers in terms of geometry, morphology etc, and on the other side on changing societal per- ceptions of hunting. Much of today’s knowledge as well as scien- tific statistical evaluation methods based on state-of-the-art in- formation technology were not available 30 or 40 years ago. Many researchers have highlighted the influence that se- Photo 3: Self-explaining – on the left the bull of photo 1, lective hunting may have on the population dynamics of game on the right the youngster of photo 2 and non-game species. Yet it is common knowledge that data sourced from hunts are inherently biased. Hunters typically se- lect a non-random subset of a game population usually based on anthropocentric perceptions nurtured by trophy scoring methods, thus making hunting the contrary of a random process. There is another constraint inherent with the trophies in the existing record books – in many cases only a relatively small percentage of the trophies taken are scored resp. are eventually entered. This may have consequences for the correct interpretation of hunting and trophy data. We therefore also need to adopt cor- rective measures for bias introduced in this way, and we need to Photo 4: Mature bulls with hard boss and narrow gap and others encourage all hunters to have all their trophies scored. who would have needed a few more years to be real trophies Change within an existing scoring method does not mean that comparability with past trophy data will disappear. Intelligent database design will assist in safeguarding continuity. Once on the wall, these younger bulls make of course It also does not mean that we will have to use complicated for- magnificent displays – since the soft boss, which virtually dis- mulas in field assessment – a mature trophy will always catch solves during the boiling process, can be masterfully recon- your eye; don’t worry about points and ranking whilst hunting – structed to resemble a fully hardened one. Maybe some hunters savor the moment, enjoy the hunt, and go for these old bulls! have the trophies scored once they are reconstructed? I once Si l For hunter-conservationists and all people who are interested in the conservation, management and the sustainable use of Africa’s wild natural resources. The distribution of African Indaba is supported by the International Council for Wildlife Conservation CIC and Conservation Force Afriican Indaba e-Newslletter Vollume 6, Number 4 Page 3 Federal Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, 2008 CIC Markhor Award noted during the award ceremony at the Ministry in Bonn the CIC Press Release importance of sustainable use, which forms the second pillar of the Biodiversity Convention. A community of 29 Tanzanian villages and the Niassa Game Dr. Sigurd Lehman-Tolkmitt, Head of the German CIC Reserve in Mozambique received the “Markhor Award” from Delegation, thanked Tanzania and Mozambique for their out- the CIC at the 9th Conference of the Parties of the Conven- standing conservation efforts. He pointed out that the CIC feels tion on Biological Diversity in Bonn.
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