Features: Magazine | Literary Review | Life | Metro Plus | Open Page | Education Plus | Book Review | Business | SciTech | Friday Review | Young World | Property Plus | Quest | Folio |

Licence to kill

China is to auction licences for foreigners to hunt wild animals, including endangered species, according to local media. The auction will offer the right to hunt yaks, wolves and other wild animals in five western provinces. The price of a licence will depend on the type and number of animals to be hunted. A licence to hunt a wolf could cost about $200 (£105), while permission to shoot a yak could be as much as $40,000 (£21,000). Shooting an argali, a large wild sheep, will cost about $10,000 (£5,000), while a blue sheep will cost $2,500 (£1,300). The wolf is the only carnivore on the list of animals that could be hunted. The licences will cover five areas of western China - Qinghai, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces and the autonomous regions of Ningxia and Xinjiang.

COMPILED BY SUBAJAYANTHI B.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail