CHITRAL: For the first time in the history of Chitral Gol National Park, a non-exportable trophy hunting of Kashmir Markhor was carried out here on Monday.

Gulab Khan, a member of the local community, told Dawn that American national, Kyle Adam Miller, selected the markhor of trophy size in the buffer zone of the national park near Shoghore village on Garam Chashma Road and easily hunted it down.

He said that the length of the horn of the nine and a half year old markhor was measured at 42 inches.

He said that on the demand of the communities depending on the national park, the government had last year decided to start non-exportable trophy hunting in the buffer zones of the national park.

Gulab Khan said that as per decision, the hunters could not export the trophy (horns) of the hunted animal with them to their home countries. He said that it had been the longstanding demand of the community as due to the successful conservation, the population of the markhor had increased in the park area.