Zimbabwe Hunting auction takes $1.7M
Published March 6th, 2006
Foreign big game hunters bid $1.7 million to shoot leopards, lions, elephants and buffaloes in Zimbabwe this year, the state media reported yesterday.
In an annual state auction for hunting trophy “bags” on Friday, 64 local agents and foreign hunters, including bidders from Austria, Germany, Russia, Spain and the U.S., paid a fixed fee of about $45 for a licence to kill a lion, the state Sunday Mail newspaper reported.
Bidding to hunt elephants exceeded $22,500.
The season for hunting in selected hunting areas runs from May to October.
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