Table 1. Mean price (daily rates, minimum number of days required, trophy fees) and number of key species and plains game typically hunted on safari packages as determined from hunting operator websites and standardized hunt return forms (The Hunting Report website, www.thehuntingreport.com, accessed 2011, June 5).
Package | Price of hunt packages | Number of animals hunted | ||||||||
Daily rate | Min. Days | Trophy fee | Lion | Elephant | Leopard | Buffalo | Sableb | PGa | ||
Mozambique | Elephant | 1,840 | 21 | 17,750 | 0 | 1.00 | 0 | 0.57 | 0 | 1.29 |
n = 43 | Lion | 1,800 | 18 | 13,286 | 1.00 | 0 | 0.44 | 0.44 | 0.33 | 3.89 |
Leopard | 1,821 | 12 | 4,444 | 1.00 | 0.33 | 0.17 | 3.83 | |||
Buffalo | 1,408 | 10 | 2,734 | 1.00 | 0.20 | 1.90 | ||||
Sable | 650 | 10 | 3,630 | 1.00 | 2.33 | |||||
Namibia | Lion | 1,975 | 20 | 22,940 | 1.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.00 |
n = 31 | Elephant | 1,617 | 16 | 15,875 | 1.00 | 0.1 | 0.20 | 0 | 1.20 | |
Leopard | 1,045 | 14 | 5,142 | 1.00 | 0.20 | 0 | 4.00 | |||
Sable | 1,427 | 12 | 9,125 | 0.25 | 1.00 | 2.50 | ||||
Buffalo | 1,567 | 9 | 6,413 | 1.00 | 0 | 2.13 | ||||
Tanzania | Lion | 3,061 | 21 | 11,835 | 1.00 | 0.10 | 0.60 | 0.70 | - | 5.20 |
n = 35 | Elephant | 2,437 | 20 | 24,488 | 1.00 | 0.40 | 0.60 | - | 3.60 | |
Leopard | 2,931 | 16 | 8,634 | 1.00 | 0.70 | - | 6.70 | |||
Buffalo | 2,198 | 9 | 4,331 | 1.30 | - | 4.50 | ||||
Zambia | Lion | 2,385 | 21 | 5,186 | 1.00 | 0 | 0.10 | 0.70 | 0.20 | 4.90 |
n = 51 | Elephant | 2,800 | 14 | 11,500 | 1.00 | 0 | 1.00 | 0 | 7.00 | |
Leopard | 1,709 | 14 | 3,550 | 1.00 | 0.50 | 0.50 | 5.80 | |||
Sable | 1,427 | 12 | 3,557 | 1.00 | 0.30 | 3.90 | ||||
Buffalo | 1,389 | 8 | 1,781 | 1.00 | 5.50 | |||||
Zimbabwe | Lion | 2,050 | 20 | 11,714 | 1.00 | 0.30 | 0.60 | 1.10 | 0.10 | 3.60 |
n = 50 | Elephant | 1,683 | 18 | 8,807 | 1.00 | 0.20 | 0.40 | 0.20 | 1.50 | |
Leopard | 1,055 | 15 | 4,341 | 1.00 | 0.60 | 0.10 | 4.30 | |||
Buffalo | 1096 | 10 | 2,774 | 1.00 | 0.20 | 3.80 | ||||
Sable | 8,90 | 11 | 4,409 | 1.00 | 5.30 |
Plains game;
Sable were not considered a key species in Tanzania.