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REGULATIONS FOR HUNTING IN THE PROVINCE OF MOZAMBIQUE,
CHAPTER I.
General Provisions.
Article 1. For the purposes of these regulations the term "caça" (game or hunting and shooting game) shall express the act of capturing, wounding, killing, or destroying undomesticated or wild animals with or without the aid of dogs or other animals trained for the purpose; it also serves to designate the animals which may be the object of such acts, or the produce, ie., the flesh, skins, feathers, bones, tusks, horns as also the nests and eggs of wild birds.
Article 2. The animals which may be hunted are divided into two groups:
(a) Harmful animals, considered dangerous to human beings and to domestic animals, may be hunted at any period of the year without limit to number and without a licence;
(6) Animals considered useful either because they furnish food or provide raw material for manufactures, because they are of service, or even because they are inoffensive, may only be hunted in accordance with the provisions of these regulations.
§ 1. The first group comprises the hunting dog, the lion, the leopard, the panther, the lynx, the wolf, the jackal, the hyena, the crocodile, snakes, ser- pents, lizards, baboons, and the large birds of prey.
§ 2. The second group comprises:—
(a) Partridges, quails, bustards, doves, guinea fowls, water hens, ducks, wild geese, herons, egrets, pigeons, snipe, owls, cranes, ostriches, marabous, &c. ;*
(b) Hares, rabbits, wild boars, the several species of antelopes, elephants, buffaloes, the rhinoceros, the hippopotamus, zebras, the otter, the deer, "almiscareiros ” (Viverra Civetta, Schreib), animals the skins of which are used in manufactures, the insectivorous animals, dugongs, &c.;
(c) Harmless animals, such as manatees, the small cats, small monkeys,
tortoises, &c.
3. The Governors of districts may temporarily include in the first group some of the animals comprised in the second group whenever, by reason of their abund- ance, they may become harmful.
Article 3. Game shall further be divided into ordinary game comprising animals which may be hunted without limit to number, and special game compris- ing animals which may only be hunted in restricted numbers, or the pursuit of which may be entirely prohibited during a greater or lesser period of time whenever there is danger of the species becoming extinct.
§ 1. The first category comprises :-
(a) Wild or dangerous animals mentioned in Section 1 of the preceding
article;
(b) Partridges, quails, doves, ducks, wild geese, snipe, pigeons;
(c) Hares, rabbits, and other small animals.
§ 2. The second category comprises:—
(a) Ostriches, marabous, herons, egrets, bustards, guinea fowls, cranes;
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(b) The elephant, the rhinoceros, the hipopotamus, buffalos, the zebra, the deer, (Viverra civetta, wild boars (wart-hog), n'girotters, "almiscareiros Schreib), colobi and all the fur monkeys, insectivorous animals, du- gongs, antelopes, especially species of the genera Addax, Aepicerus, Ammodorcas, Antidorcas, Bubalis, Cephalophus, Cervicapra, Cobus, Connochoetas, Darcotragus, Dumaliscus, Gazella, Hippotragus, Lito- chranius, Madoqua, Nanotragus, Oribia, Oreotragus, Orix, Pelea, Raphicerus, Strepsicerus, Taurotragus, and Tragelaphus, some of which are mentioned in the schedule annexed to these regulations; (c) The animals mentioned in paragraph (c) of Section 2 of Article 2. Article 4. Governors of districts shall use every means in their power to complete and improve the lists of animals existing in the district, but which are
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not mentioned, giving the name by which they are commonly known. The said Governors may also transfer from one to the other category such animals-with the exception of the elephant and other animals which should be protected owing to their rarity-as circumstances may require, and they may even entirely prohibit the hunting of any of the useful animals whenever they become rare, and there is danger of their species becoming extinct.
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The alterations, additions, and prohibitions referred to in this article shall only have legal effect thirty days after publication in the Official Bulletin under the approval of the Governor-General.
Article 5.
It is absolutely prohibited to hunt the following animals:—
(1) Vultures, the secretary bird, owls, rhinoceros birds, the giraffe, and the
white-tailed gnu or black wildebeest.
(2) All young animals comprised in paragraph (b) of § 2 of Article 3,
and especially the elephant.
(3) The female elephant.
(4) The females of the animals comprised in paragraph (b) of § 2 of
Article 3, when accompanied by their young.
§1. Paragraph 2, respecting elephants, shall be considered to have been infringed whenever a tusk weighing less than five kilogrammes, or any piece of ivory which may be recognised to have been part of such a tusk, is found in the possession of a hunter, or his assistants, natives or traders, unless they give satis- factory proof that such tusk or piece of ivory was imported by sea.
§ 2. Any infraction of the provisions of this Article is punishable by a
fine of from 25,000 to 250,000 reis, the maximum fine being always imposed in the case of elephants. In other cases the fine will be determined according to the value or scarcity of the animals.
Article 6. It is forbidden to take or destroy the nests and eggs of wild birds, with the exception of birds of prey, or to sell or expose for sale such nests or eggs. under penalty of a fine of 25,000 reis.
Article 7. The period between the 1st November and the following 30th of April shall be the close season.
§ 1. The period of the close season may be altered by decision of the local governments, who may also prohibit or permit the hunting of certain species of animals during the whole year.
§2. Any alteration of the close season shall only have effect thirty days after being published in the Official Bulletin of the province.
§3. There shall be no close season for the animals mentioned in § 1 of Article 2
or for any wild animals found damaging plantations or gardens, but the hunter, however, shall be called upon to prove these circumstances.
§ 4. Contravention of the provisions of this Article shall be punished by a fine of from 50,000 to 200,000 reis.
Article 8. Pursuit of any bird or animal within the zones set apart as State game reserves is not allowed, those mentioned in § 1 of Article 2 being excepted.
$1. Pursuit of certain species of animals within the State reserves can only be permitted by the Governor-General of the province on the recommendation of the Governor of the district concerned.
or when it is § 2. Any person found hunting on the State reserves. proved that he has done so without the permission mentioned in the preceding sub- article, shall be punished by a fine of from 100,000 and 300,000 reis.
Article 9. The following are, at the present moment, considered to be State
reserves:-
(1) In the district of Lourenço Marques, the zone bounded by the river Maputo, from the frontier up to Salamanga, by a straight line from the latter point up to Porto Henrique, by another straight line up to Umbeluzi Port, and by the frontier line up to the river Maputo; the zone bounded by the river Sabié up to the mouth of this river, by the river Incomati from the mouth of the Sabié up to the junction of the river Incoluane, along the course of this river, and along the road from Bilene up to the river Limpopo, along the course of the latter river up
to the frontier, and along the frontier line up to the Sabié port; the region of Inhatumbo in the lands of the Chief Madendella
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