All forms of wildlife hunting are prohibited in the Philippines.
This, according to Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Horacio Ramos in an advisory issued recently, sternly warning the public that the “DENR does not allow hunting of wildlife in any place in the country.”
Ramos’s move to reiterate the entire Philippines being “off limits” to wildlife hunters came following reports that a US-based website www.adventures411.com offers a jungle safari on Mindoro island to kill “some native species you simply cannot hunt anywhere else in the world today.”
In its 14-day hunting package, the website offers a “guaranteed 100 percent of killing major trophy animals” that includes some of the Philippines’ endangered animals like the Asian Sambar deer, Philippine mouse deer, saltwater crocodile, and the Philippine wart pig.
Hunting or unauthorized collection of endangered and vulnerable species (meaning their number is nearing extinction) is a criminal offense under Republic Act 9147, otherwise known as the Philippine Wildlife Conservation Act of 2001, and carries penalties of imprisonment from two to 12 years, including fines ranging from P30,000 to P1 million. FULL STORY
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