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Trophy revenue

Posted by RCampbell on 24 Jun 2012 at 06:46 GMT

We estimated income (sum of daily rates and trophy fees) accrued per block using off-take data and hunt package prices obtained from the 2011 online survey.
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Hunting businesses charge a trophy fee for each animal killed by clients. Lindsey et al. estimated this fee for each species in each country from a survey of operator websites. The businesses must in turn pay a trophy fee to the relevant government agency from whom they lease their hunting block. It is not clear from the Lindsey et al. article if this cost to operators has been removed from trophy revenue. Trophy revenue in the model should include only the operators’ mark-up and should not include the liability to the government agency. If this liability has not been removed then the model overstates the revenue of all hunting tourism businesses.

Competing interests declared: I was commissioned by the African Lion Coalition to review this article and have received payment for my services. The African Lion Coalition consists of several animal protection agencies including the International Fund for Animal Welfare, Humane Society International and Born Free.