Hunting tourism on Azerbaijan

Hunting tourism

Azerbaijan having the rich cultural and historical heritage has favorable natural conditions for development prospects of the tourism industry. There are great opportunities for development of majority of tourism kinds of the country like health, environmental, cultural, social, business, sports, special interest, and so on. In recent years, one of the developing kinds of tourism is hunting tourism.

Hunting in Azerbaijan

The hunting tourism in Azerbaijan has been operating since 1963. In recent years, the interest in this field was increased. There are different types of hunting in the country at the moment. The mountain goat and birds hunting were most developed one.The hunting kinds in the territory of Azerbaijan are the following:

- Hunting of Dagestan goat;

- Wild boar hunting;

- Rabbit hunting;

- Hunting of forest dove;

- Quail hunting;

- Partridge hunting;

- Water birds (goose, duck, coot) hunting;

- Jullut hunting;

- Woodcock hunting;

- Chamois hunting.

In order to regulate the number of animals the hunting are limited in the fields and hunting farms. Hunting farms operating in Azerbaijan (HF) are as follows:

S/N NAME LOCATION AREA, Ha DESTINATION

Ulduz HF Shamakhy region 5000
Hunting of Daghestan goat, deer, wild boar, pheasant etc wild animals
Sheki HF Sheki and Oghuz regions 60000 Hunting of Daghestan goat,Caucasian red deer, roe deer, chamois, wild boar and so wild animals
Gakh HF Gakh region 2700 Hunting of Dagestan goat, Caucasian red deer, roe deer, chamois, wild boar and so on wild animals
Samukh HF Samukh region 40424 Hunting of wild boar, partridge.
Pirallahı HF Azizbeyov region 10000 Hunting of wetland and water birds
Yashma HF Khyzy region 4000 Hunting of foxes, jackals and water birds
Gilazi HF Khyzy region 25 Hunting of boar
Babadagh HF Guba and İsmayıllı
Regions 61000 Hunting of Dagestan goat, roe deer, chamois, wild boar and so on wild animals
Sarysu HF Imishli and Sabirabad regions 120 Fishing of lake fish, hunting of water birds and swamp birds
Varvara HF Yevlakh region 7762 Fishing of lake fish, hunting of water birds and swamp birds
Sharbat-qobu HF Imishli region 20000 Hunting of water birds and swamp birds
Dashgil HF Garadagh region 3 Organization of rest of hunters and other citizens and organization of hunting activity
Pirsaat HF Garadagh region 3000
Hunting of water birds and swamp birds
Mahmudchala HF Bilasuvar region 7135,6 Organization of rest of hunters and other citizens and organization of hunting activity
Zavvar HF Jalilabad region 6995
Hunting of jackal, fox, pig, water and wetland birds
Qirmizıkend HF Neftchala region 10000 Hunting of water and wetland birds

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