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The hunter’s certificate, tied to the “hunting minimum”

The certificate attests the right to hunt; issuing it requires knowledge of the short course called okhotminimum.

Kazakh law defines the hunter's certificate (удостоверение охотника) as a document of the prescribed form certifying a natural person's right to hunt. Issuing it is conditional on a knowledge requirement the act names and defines: the okhotminimum is a special short course within the training programme, covering questions of Kazakh legislation on the protection, reproduction and use of the animal world and safety technique while hunting; knowledge of it is a mandatory condition for issuing the hunter's certificate. Alongside that personal document sits a use authorisation: the authorisation to use the animal world is a document of the prescribed form giving natural and legal persons the right to use the animal world — excluding fish resources and other aquatic animals — and to export and sell the objects taken, their parts and derivatives, including hunting trophies. The hunting trophy is itself defined as the animal, its parts and derivatives, taken from the habitat under the procedure established by Kazakh legislation.

Regulations

Kazakhstan: commercial hunting, sport hunting, and national hunting

The act distinguishes commercial from sport hunting; the latter includes national hunting with raptors and Kazakh dogs.

Kazakhstan's act on the protection, reproduction and use of the animal world divides hunting into two categories. Commercial hunting (промысловая охота) is the taking of huntable animal species for the purposes of business activity. Amateur or sport hunting (любительская, спортивная охота) is the taking of those same species to satisfy sporting and aesthetic needs and for personal consumption of what is taken. Within the second category the act names a practice particular to the country: national hunting (национальная охота) is the gunless taking of sport-hunting species using hunting birds of prey and dogs of Kazakh breeds. The act expressly treats the use of those auxiliaries as hunting. The territorial rule is simple: hunting takes place in the allocated hunting grounds, unless the competent authority provides otherwise. The reserve fund of hunting grounds designates, conversely, those grounds not allocated to any user of the animal world.

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