Julio Cesar Voltolini,
As Meghan Bohn stated, it depends on the country. I spent time in Namibia
as well, and many hunting operations worked with private companies who
owned private land or cooperated with other private land owners to create
conservancies. With these private hunting companies, many (not all) did
game counts regularly and knew their land and their animals well. Game
counts by private land owners usually consist of driving transects or
waterhole counts from a hide. Private land owners would do counts with
helicopters (though this is expensive) usually during the process of
transporting wildlife. Wildlife are often moved between farms through game
capture, as laws have encouraged fencing. If an animal is on your property
in Namibia, its yours (unless it is a black rhinoceros or something). So
fencing has been encouraged in this way. As you can imagine, hunters want
to take large bulls, so males are sought after and often requested during
wildlife movement between farms (private land). But this all has to do with
game such as antelope, zebra, wildebeest, and giraffe. Tags for lions,
elephants, and rhinoceros is another story altogether.
I'd recommend contacting some hunting companies abroad in Africa (in your
focus countries). Perhaps you could provide incentive for information, by
offering them some calculations?
Another approach could be looking at National Park wildlife counts that are
bordered by private land owners that have trophy hunting operations. There
may be a surplus of data collected by National Parks or scientists working
withing the parks. I hope this is helpful
Good luck on your endeavors,
Matthew Solberg
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 8:32 AM, Júlio Cesar Voltolini
wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> We read so much discussion about hunting in the last years. In some
> African countries tourists can hunt and I would like to know if these
> countries are monitoring the animal populations, calculating carrying
> capacity and Minimum Population Viability.
>
> Are there articles or reports about these estimates?
>
>
> Prof. Dr. J. C. Voltolini
> Departamento de Biologia
> Universidade de Taubaté
> Brasil
>
