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Thursday 26 November 2015
Monday 23 November 2015
Thursday 19 November 2015
The Origin and History of the American Foxhound.(An Old Hunters' Horn Magazine Article: July 1976)
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Wednesday 18 November 2015
A New Breed of Hunters' Organization Is Born.
Caiere Chase would like to wish the All TrinBago Hunters' Network, all the best in their future endeavors. We at Caiere Chase hope to be seeing a lot from them in the future.
Sunday 15 November 2015
Friday 13 November 2015
New conservation group: Ban commercial sale of wildmeat
A newly formed wildlife conservation group is attempting to bridge the gap between hunters and conservationists, and is calling for sustainable hunting by hunters.
Wildlife and Environmental Protection of Trinidad and Tobago (WEPTT) is promoting sustainability regarding wildlife in Trinidad and Tobago.
The members of the organisation include Kishan Ramcharan (Forester I) and conservationists Kristopher Rattansingh, Kristian Rattansingh and Taariq Ali.
The conservationists have been making headlines lately with their volunteer efforts across the country. Their most recent rescues and relocations included the silky anteater, caimans in Valsayn and assistance with the bottlenose dolphin in Orange Valley. However their biggest breakthrough occurred while volunteering in collaboration with Rio Claro Police Station and Forestry Division which led to the arrest of a man who had snakes in his possession for the purpose of consumption last month.
They have also been involved with rectifying disputes between hunters and conservationists.
According to Rattansingh, the only side they have taken is that they want to ensure the continuity of Trinidad’s protected species and eliminate poaching whilst establishing the mutual agreement of sustainability between hunters and conservationists.
He said that there is a need for the push of the implementation of sustainable hunting, since the “concern is wildlife, having and protecting wildlife while we have it and so that their children and generations to come can have it too”.
Rattansingh said that there is a need for more wardens, “but if we strictly regulate how many animals of specific breed, size and species and hold hunters responsible for their catches with systems such as tagging (hunters purchase tags for each of their kills, where they will have to document each kill per tag and return that documentation to forestry for accountability)”, said Rattansingh.
According to Rattansingh, the accountability comes with enforcement by game wardens and if while patrol they find people with untagged animals the violators can be fined and licenses revoked.
He said, “One of the issues that needs to be addressed is that I know of many poachers who want to apply for the honorary game warden program so they can have respective access and powers to use that loophole and poach without being caught. Which I personally (not WEPTT) think that banning wardens themselves from hunting is a good combatant of this loophole. I think it’s a reasonable sacrifice for being a warden”.
He also said that the game wardens and Forestry officers need to be armed as these officers encounter armed hunters and poachers in areas unfamiliar to many and have nothing and no one to protect them.
Rattansingh is suggesting a ban on the commercial sale of wild meat which he believes is a major reason for the extreme poaching which is occurring.
He said, “A ban on commercial sales should have happened yesterday. Wild meat being sold commercially is one of the biggest problems we face. Not only does it promote poachers but it enables them. If they can’t sell it, poaching will decrease. Please note, decrease not stop. Another thing is many of these people who stand on streets selling wild meat is mostly an illegal trade. Many of those vendors don’t have permits to possess the animals they sell. The next thing is many of the consumers don’t have permits to possess the animals they purchase. These are violations of the conservation of wildlife act, section 5 2(b) which states that it is illegal to possess an animal or any part thereof without its respective permit”.
Rattansingh is also calling for law reform. He said the current act that affects Wildlife, The Conservation of Wildlife Act, Chapter 67:01 is in desperate need of revision. The fines in place are almost non-existent and do nothing to put a real dent in the crimes that are being perpetrated.
He said there is desperate need for the revision of listed species and the laws themselves. “The fines themselves need to be increased, so our protected animals are actually protected and violators need not worry about only losing some pocket change”, said Rattansingh.
He said that education is key and “if people understood the importance and necessity of our local wildlife, they would have more respect for their lives too”.
- Published on Nov 13, 2015, 12:05 pm AST
- By Sandhya Santoo
- On: trinidadexpress.com
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Wild meat glory days risk unhappy ending
The hunting season, declared open as one of the first official acts of Agriculture Minister Clarence Rambharat, continues to make scary news about the fate of T&T wildlife, unprotected and other.
Media images of dead animals taken from the wild may have indulged a taste for the macabre, but have certainly illustrated an all-out assault on the stock of local fauna that is troublingly unsustainable.
At Divali, cruise ship visitors were privileged to savour curried iguana and dumplings at Crown Point. If such a gastronomic treat encourages return visits to Tobago, the tourists cannot be sure any restaurant there will again be able to offer that menu item.
Tobago’s own unhappy wildlife experience is available for instructing present practice across the nation.
Papa Bois Conservation director Marc De Verteuil argues that a total killing-off is possible of animals favoured as wild meat. “Tobago has already lost deer as a species,” he warned.
It is a well-founded fear is that the free-rein slaughter for wild meat, enabled by the lifted hunting ban, could lead to the extermination of some species.
Conservationists and government officials agree on the absence of data on which to base regulation to allow for some limited and regulated hunting, and the natural replacement of slaughtered wildlife.
Under the direction of Minister Rambharat, however, the policy decision has been to err on the side of giving the hunters and their dogs the all-clear.
The result, as seen by Papa Bois, is “a tragedy of the commons”. Since nobody owns the forest, and officials are almost never keeping watch, “individuals just take what they can”.
Apparently, anybody so moved can legally become a hunter, just by paying a trifling $20 for a permit. Mr De Verteuil also points out that prices for an agouti, reaching as high as $400, serve as incentives for the hunter-entrepreneurs of today, who hardly spare a thought for the prospects of tomorrow.
Regulation is absent or inadequate. Non-enforcement of existing law is lamented even by Minister Rambharat.
He worries aloud that no police prosecution has been triggered by the media image of a recognisable someone “roasting the carcass of an anteater”, a protected species.
The minister is thus obliged ineffectually to rely on just the moral suasion of urging freed-up hunters to “be responsible”.
If the new administration has a plan for filling this vacuum of regulation and enforcement, Mr Rambharat should make clear what it is. Meanwhile, wild meat hunters, and eager gourmands, continue to enjoy what could be the last of their glory days.
Express Editorial
- Published on Nov 12, 2015, 7:00 pm AST On: trinidadexpress.com
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Thursday 12 November 2015
Wednesday 11 November 2015
Monday 9 November 2015
Anyone for a Divali “Iguana and dumplings”?
The 3,000 or so cruise ship passengers who arrived in Tobago on Monday, have a truly unique meal to sample if they head on over to Crown Point.
There is a Divali special on sale and for the price of $65, they can scarf down on curried/stewed lizard and dumplings. The “guana” will be served on Tuesday at Chef’s BBQ.
Restaurant supervisor Mellisa Dillon said: “well the hunting season opened and a customer came in asking if we want to buy (iguana) and I said why not? We could give it a try. So I got the okay from the higher management, and we bought all the iguana he had, which was about six large ones”.
Dillion said she was catering for 60 customers and was hoping that the “guana” would be all gone by 5p.m Tuesday.
- Published on Nov 9, 2015, 9:32 am AST
- Updated on Nov 9, 2015, 9:34 am AST
- By: Sue-Ann Wayow
sue-ann.wayow@trinidadexpress.com
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Fake hunters are stealing $10,000 hunting dogs
DOGS used for hunting are being hunted down by dog thieves posing as hunters.
The hair on the stolen dogs are then dyed in order to make then unrecognisable to the owner. At least nine have been swiped since the resumption of the hunting seson.
This is the claim made by president of the South Eastern Hunters Association Mohan Bholasingh whose own hunting dog was stolen on Sunday. Bholasingh, who is pleading with the public to help him find his professional and pet dog said : “The dogs that are stolen is the strong healthy looking powerful dogs, the feeble worm infested dogs which are really lost and needs help are left to die. Dogs are stolen while hunting, there are men out there posing as hunters and taking up dogs and selling them to others at very high prices. There are hunters out there who are in fact thieves, they thief from others in their day to day lives and cannot resist the temptation to steal a dog, once the opportunity presents itself.”
“How do we deal with this menace? “ he asked.
Bholasingh said the stolen hounds just added to the problem of dogs dying out due to the two-year-ban on hunting that ended in October. Since the beginning of the season he said nine dogs were stolen from the association hunters. Once was a dog was hunting, it can be sold for at least $10,000 he said.
Bholasingh said: “We are now attempting to train dogs to hunt after the moratorium which resulted in hunting dogs dying. I personally lost my two hunting dogs they died during the moratorium. Young dogs which do not have forest experience and can be easily taken by the thieves.”
Bholasingh added: “Hunter thieves when caught with the dogs always claim that they found it and are taking it in for safe keeping until the owner arise. They also make reports at the police station to cover their tracks. However the reports are made in stations out of where the dogs are found, Dogs found in Catshill which should be reported in Rio Claro are reported in Sangre Grande, Diego Martin etcetera.”
He stated: “ Any hunter who holds a hunting dog in the forest environment and takes it into his custody without knowing the owner and intends to carry it for the owner is a dog thief. No person should remove a hunting dog from a hunting environment if it does not belong to him. If the dogs are left alone the owner would find them since they would be searching in the area where the dog was misplaced.”
“Dog thief’s common evasive strategy is to dye the hair on the dog, so as to camouflage its appearance, a brown and white dog can easily be dyed into a black and white dog,” Bholasingh also said.
The Express was told there were no reports of stolen dogs at the Rio Claro Police Station.
- Published on Nov 9, 2015, 8:28 am AST
- By: Sue-Ann Wayow
sue-ann.wayow@trinidadexpress.com
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Friday 6 November 2015
PBC Director Marc On A Facebook Hunters Group Seeking Help LOL
Caiere Chas has now taken it upon itself to lightup Papa Bois Conservation (PBC). In other words CC is now on a all out full campaign to expose PBC for what they truly are for all to see, using their very own words against them as evidence of their duplicity.
All sport hunters truly concerned with wildlife and forest conservation, must be shown that PBC is no friend of the sport of hunting or sport hunters. As definite proof of this one only has to read their own words with a discerning mind.
Sunday 1 November 2015
So Much Hate And Ignorance From PBC
The above screen shot was taken from the Papa Bois Conservation facebook page. It was posted on Sunday the 1st of November 2015.
Which one of the PBC administrators posted this and why are they shooting at hunters?
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