This year IFHC announced they have bred 13,000 Asian Houbara exceeding
the target by 3000; it’s a remarkable year. Yet their mission is to spread awareness
on sustainable hunting. It’s a big leap from 2,726 chicks bred last year
According to the experts the main reasons for the decline in the
houbara population in the UAE is the demolition of its habitat to use the land
for the city development. And by over hunting houbara to train falcons .In
contrast, falconers will play a big part on houbara’s survival; they use houbaras
to train falcons to hunt which it’s not their natural prey in the first place,
which makes them highly demanded by falconers; besides the number of falconers
has increased and the prices of falcons have decreased.
The best conservation plan is to eliminate the black market
for houbara and provide falconers birds officially for training rather than go into
the black market, and to educate falconers about the risks that come with this sport.
These issues were all raised at the falconry section of
ADIHEX as many people gathered to buy weapons, falcons and even to adopt homeless
animals.
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