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.

The program was funded by the Global Environmental Facility of the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme and implemented by the government of Pakistan, with advice from the IUCN. Initially, it was a $3 million project. The project was scaled up to $10 million in 1997 and expanded to more valleys and other species. The population of Astor markhor is about 1,200. In 2015, the IUCN [moved the markhor] from endangered to "near threatened" status. [IUCN states the population for all markhor is now 5,754 "mature individuals." That's why the hunter Harlan believes he contributed to the preservation of the endangered species of goats. "This is a perfect example when hunters from around the world unite with local peasants for a higher purpose, to preserve the species"- he says.