This Man Paid $ 110,000 To Kill A Goat From An Endangered Species

Last week, Pakistani newspapers published a photo that attracted enormous public attention, according to the Washington Post. It’s a photo of a dead wild goat and the American hunter who paid $ 110,000 for this “pleasure”, smiling next to its dead body.

Numbers were down for the three species of the markhor in Pakistan. The estimate for the Astor markhor [the kind the hunter felled] was about 100 in the Gilgit-Balistan region. Someone from the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which issues this red list of threatened species, floated the idea of using these magnificent goats in Pakistan to start a trophy hunting program with an incentive structure for local communities to participate. Twelve permits are issued a year for hunts and 80 percent of the money goes back to the local villages.