In January 2018, the Lebanese Hunting Club posted a series of photographs displaying hunters smiling behind their spoils, hundreds of birds downed during a trip to Tunisia. The images suscitated a wave of outrage by conservation groups not only for the way that the group advertised their copious kill, but for the fact that hunting of this scale is permitted under current legislation. On paper, regulations in the sector were designed to conserve biodiversity and ecosystems. To what extent do today’s hunting practices, quotas and implementation live up to this role?
Five NGO’s are denouncing the serious Fauna and Flora breaches in the Tunisian Sahara
In a complaining letter, dating of April 16th 2013, (see below), addressed to the General Director of forests for the regional office for agricultural development in Kebili. Five local NGO’s in Douz-one of them is “Tunisie Ecologie”, lead by Abdel Majid Dabbar-denounce the the serious fauna and flora breaches in the Tunisian Sahara and that by several illegal practices, including poaching of protected species by a definite group coming from Gulf countries.
Tunisie : ” Les braconniers qataris sont de retour “
Aujourd’hui et après une investigation sur terrain, le militant écologiste Abdel Magid Dabbar nous a averti que quatre camps de chasse viennent d’être installés dans le Sahara tunisien.
Un militant écologiste révèle les pratiques des braconniers étrangers en Tunisie
Le militant écologiste Abdel Majid Dabbar est très actif dans les ONGs de protection de la Nature et de l’Environnement. Suite à son appel sur facebook où il parle des outardes (houbara en rabe) et des dernières gazelles dorcas et rim gravement menacées par la chasse illégale