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Code of Conduct

Members of the Namibia Professional Hunting Association NAPHA will abide to the following:

1. To respect all the Laws and Regulations governing the Republic of Namibia.
2. To show and demonstrate respect for all Fauna and Flora, the environment and the non-hunting and hunting public.
3. To act responsibly towards all land owners and/or holders and their employees and treat them fairly at all times.
4. To act responsibly and with courtesy towards all clients, agents and officials and live up to the promises made.
5. To maintain honesty and integrity at all times.
6. To take all precautions to ensure the safety of clients, employees and anybody else involved during a hunt.
7. To promote and demonstrate responsible management practices to ensure the sustainable use of the resource base and to maintain bio-diversity.
8. To practice the principals of fair chase as defined by the Code of Sport Hunting Conduct for Africa.
9. To exercise professionalism at all times in all aspects of the hunting profession.
10. To always ensure internationally acceptable humane practices in the utilization of wildlife.

Principals of FAIR CHASE are defined by the African Code of Hunting Ethics:

1. The pursuit of free wild animals, possessing the natural behavioral inclination to escape from a hunter, and be fully free to do so.
2. Wild animals are not to be hunted with an artificial light source or other similar technical equipment. A motorized mode of transport may not be used to chase the said animal.
3. No ethical hunter, while hunting, shall willfully disturb or take visibly pregnant or females with dependent young.
4. A wild animal should exist as a naturally interacting individual of a wild sustainable population located in an area that meets both spatial and temporal requirements of the population of which that individual is a member.
5. Wild animals should be hunted sustainably within an ecological functional system.

The above fair chase principals exclude practices known as “put and take” as well as any form of manipulated “canned hunt”.

Should a member contravene any of the above paragraphs his/her membership with the Namibia Professional Hunting Association may cease.