Texas Trophy Hunter Pays $110,000, Highest Ever Price to Shoot Rare Screw-Horned Goat

Texas Trophy Hunter Pays $110,000, Highest Ever Price to Shoot Rare Screw-Horned Goat
A spiral-horned Markhor goat. Pixabay
Simon Veazey
Simon Veazey
Freelance Reporter
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A Texan trophy hunter forked out $110,000 to shoot the endangered screw-horned-goat—the highest ever price to bag one of the few thousand remaining animals in the mountains of Pakistan.

Every year, a handful of licences are granted to trophy hunters as part of a scheme which supporters say paradoxically helped saved the rare Astore markhor from extinction after its population dropped to just a few hundred.

Simon Veazey
Simon Veazey
Freelance Reporter
Simon Veazey is a UK-based journalist who has reported for The Epoch Times since 2006 on various beats, from in-depth coverage of British and European politics to web-based writing on breaking news.
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