Italian hunter Carlo Pasco has hunted the season’s first Markhor trophy in Skardu town.
According to reports, Pasco successfully hunted a flared-horned markhor in Skardu.
The hunter had paid a permit fee of $85,000 to hunt a markhor in the region.
Late last month, it was reported that the wildlife department of Gilgit Baltistan has auctioned four licenses for hunting the markhor, the official national animal of Pakistan after the Ministry of Climate Change agreed to the licenses, including for trophy hunting of the much in demand flare-horned Astore markhor, a large goat species native to Pakistan.
Each license was sold for over $80,000, of which 80 percent will go to the villages where the hunt takes place for developing their infrastructure.
