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The
Himalaya Ibex (Capra ibex sibirica) occurs in a wide range
of Asian mountains, in the Hindukush, Pamir, Himalaya and the Karakorum
mountains. In the past this species was heavily hunted and especially
during the construction of the Karakorum Highway was threatened with extinction
in the areas this highway transects. Heavily protected by the game scouts
of the Community Based Sustainable Hunting Programme, this beautiful animal
made a remarkable recovery and can now be selectively hunted by the foreign
sportsman. The Ibex hunting areas are easily accessed and don’t require
long, time consuming expeditions; however the accommodation still consists
of rather basic tents or shepherd’s huts. These hunts can be combined
with hunts for blue sheep or Kashmir and Astor markhor, die idealist period
is however in the rutting season which ranges from December 20. to January
10. The legal hunting period however ranges from November 1. to March
31.
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