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Original Post Date: 2010-11-29 Time: 13:00:03 Posted By: News Poster
By Jana-Mari Smith
A major international investigation led by US authorities, Interpol and South African authorities is continuing into claims of cross-border smuggling of hunting trophies between Namibia and South Africa.
At the centre of the investigation is South African Barry Burchell, who is alleged to own at least two farms in Namibia.
A significant portion of Burchell’s hunting operations allegedly took place in Namibia, where he brings clients to hunt through his company Frontier Safaris.
According to a source at the South African Department of Economic Affairs and Environmental Affairs (Dedea), an independent investigation has been launched into the manner in which Burchell transported clients’ trophies, in particular animal skins, from Namibia into South Africa and then into the US. The Dedea official confirmed that the South African investigators are assisting Interpol and the US Fish and Wildlife Service in their investigations.
According to several hunters in the US, their trophies were confiscated by the US Fish and Wildlife Service due to incorrect labelling that were allegedly intended to disguise the fact that many of the animals were shot in Namibia and not in SA, as claimed by Burchell.
The Dedea official claimed that the international investigation has been continuing for the past year and is independent of an ongoing N$12 million defamation lawsuit Burchell has brought against a former business partner, Scott Anglin, a Texan.
The Dedea official said the Namibian authorities would be notified once they have completed their investigation.
In Namibia, customs officials and officials at the Ministry of Environment and Tourism have confirmed that they are not investigating charges against Burchell.
The international investigation into Burchell’s dealings was revealed this month during the defamation lawsuit, where testimony from a manager at Cabela’s Outdoor Adventures, a leading booking agent for hunting operators, showed that Burchell’s cross-border dealings had caused concern for some time.
According to investigative reporter Eddie Botha at the SA online newspaper Dispatch Online, Gregg Severinson, head of Cabela’s Outdoor Adventures, said a colleague had informed him that he was “very nervous about how Frontier Safaris is exporting trophies”.
He said Severinson was informed that there were concerns that Burchell did not follow US Fish and Wildlife regulations. The adventure company was apparently concerned that Burchell was shipping clients’ trophies in bulk across the Namibian border into South Africa, “not under hunters’ names … then shipping it as gifts or hunted in the Republic of SA”.
Severinson testified that Cabela’s was alerted to the investigation into Burchell in late 2009, after customers complained about problems with their trophies.
The Daily Dispatch quotes Severinson as saying some trophies were “taking too long and [some] trophies [were] without correct documentation …”.
Cabela’s claims it severed all ties with Burchell when the US authorities began to confiscate clients’ trophies.
According to court documents filed at the Grahamstown Court, Anglin informed Cabela’s that Burchell was “guilty of criminal activities”, “notoriously abusive to his own employees”, “unethical” in his hunting practices and did not pay his bills.
A Namibian hunter said several of Burchell’s US clients had their trophies confiscated during the past year by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, which began investigating the claims against Burchell.
The source said Burchell’s shipping of trophies came under suspicion when animals he claimed were hunted on his farm in SA were in fact hunted in Namibia.
He added that the investigation into Burchell, and the fact that authorities in the US have confiscated trophies from hunters, are “very bad for Namibia’s reputation as a hunting destination.”
Burchell is no longer a member of NAPHA, after he stopped paying his membership fees.
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Original date published: 29 November 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201011290637.html?viewall=1