AC30 Doc. 15 Annex 5 (English only / seulement en anglais / únicamente en inglés) MINISTRY OF TOURISM AND ARTS DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL PARKS & WILDLIFE NON DETRIMENTAL FINDINGS REPORT FOR AFRICAN LEOPARD SPORT HUNTING IN ZAMBIA MAY 2018 Photo Credit: Barry Bell-Cross. Various trail camera photos of leopards recorded in Lunga Luswishi GMA P/Bag 1, Chilanga Tel: (260) 211 278335, 211 278365 Fax: (260) 211 278365, 211 278244 Email: [email protected] i TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 Introduction ............................................................................................................................... 1 2.0 Background to Zambia CITES Leopard Quotas ............................................................................ 1 2.0 Biological status ......................................................................................................................... 3 2.1 Distribution ............................................................................................................................................. 3 2.2 Population status .................................................................................................................................... 5 2.3 Genetic Variability ................................................................................................................................... 5 3.0 Conservation and Management ................................................................................................. 7 3.1 Legislation ............................................................................................................................................... 7 3.2 The Zambia Wildlife Act No. 14 of 2015 with particular reference to administration of Hunting, Licenses, and the Wildlife Fund. ................................................................................................................... 7 3.2.1 Classes of licences ............................................................................................................................ 7 3.2.2 The Wildlife Fund ............................................................................................................................. 7 3.3 Supporting Statutory Instruments (SIs) .................................................................................................. 8 3.4 Zambia’s Conservation Strategy and Action Plan for lion ....................................................................... 8 3.5 Wildlife Conservation and Management ................................................................................................ 9 3.5.1 Law Enforcement Operations ......................................................................................................... 10 3.5.2 Wildlife Research............................................................................................................................ 13 3.5.3 Leopard Surveys and Methods ....................................................................................................... 13 3.6 Stakeholder Involvement in leopard Conservation .............................................................................. 14 3.6.1 Hunting Outfitters .......................................................................................................................... 14 3.6.2 Communities .................................................................................................................................. 14 3.6.3 Non-Governmental Organizations ................................................................................................. 14 4.0 Utilization ................................................................................................................................. 16 4.1 Safari hunting in Zambia ....................................................................................................................... 16 4.2 Leopard hunting Areas .......................................................................................................................... 16 4.2.1 GMAs .............................................................................................................................................. 16 4.2.2 Open Game Ranches ...................................................................................................................... 16 4.3 Hunting Quotas ..................................................................................................................................... 17 4.3.1 Quota allocation process ............................................................................................................... 18 4.3.2 Leopard Quotas and utilisation ...................................................................................................... 20 4.3.3 Guidelines for Hunting Leopards .................................................................................................... 23 4.4 Allocation of hunting concessions ........................................................................................................ 24 4.4.1 Obligations of the concessionaire in the hunting concession agreement ...................................... 25 4.4.2 Compliance to obligations of the concession agreement .............................................................. 28 4.5.1 Quota monitoring........................................................................................................................... 28 4.5.2 Leopard Hunting Monitoring ......................................................................................................... 29 4.6 International Trade ............................................................................................................................... 33 i 5.0 Involvement of the hunting sector in leopard Conservation .................................................... 34 5.1 Benefits of leopard hunting in Zambia.................................................................................................. 34 5.1.1 Ecological Benefits ......................................................................................................................... 34 5.1.2. Economic Benefits ......................................................................................................................... 34 5.1.3. Social Benefits ............................................................................................................................... 35 5.2 Transparency ......................................................................................................................................... 35 6.0 Threats and Mitigation ............................................................................................................ 36 6.1 Habitat Encroachment and Fragmentation .......................................................................................... 36 6.1.1 General Management Plans .......................................................................................................... 36 6.1.3 Open Game Ranches and Trans-frontiers Conservation Areas ...................................................... 37 6.2 Human-Leopard Conflict ....................................................................................................................... 38 6.3 Bush meat poaching and prey depletion .............................................................................................. 38 6.3.1 Prey Availability and abundance .................................................................................................... 38 7.0 Community Based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM) ................................................. 43 7.1 CBNRM in Zambia ................................................................................................................................. 43 7.2 Community Benefits ............................................................................................................................. 43 8.0 Revenues and Expenditures from Trophy Hunting ................................................................... 45 8.1 Animal and hunting fees ................................................................................................................... 45 8.2 Source of revenues to the DNPW ......................................................................................................... 45 8.2.1 Revenues from leopard hunting ........................................................................................................ 47 8.3 Expenditures of revenues ..................................................................................................................... 48 8.4 Funds disbursed to Communities ......................................................................................................... 50 9.0 Conclusions and Non-detriment findings ................................................................................. 51 10.0 References ............................................................................................................................. 53 Annex 1 - Assessment of the Zambia DNPW Enhancement and Non-Detriment Findings against the IUCN SSC “Guiding principles on trophy hunting as a tool for creating conservation incentives. Ver. 1.0. IUCN SSC (2012)” .................................................................................................................... 55 Annex 2: Contact details for selected Hunting Associations and NGO’s