The EXTENDED MEETING OF THE TROPHY COMMISSION of the Mountain Hunters Club took place on July 27th.
At the meeting, a decision was made to clarify and amend the CMH rating lists.
I. On changing the procedure for registering the Corsican mouflon, included in the OVIS list of the CMH
The International Club GSCO has decided to change the registration of Corsican mouflon trophies. Due to the fact that the homeland of the Corsican mouflon is the island of Corsica, where hunting for this subspecies is currently closed, hunters were able to hunt it only in a limited area of mainland France, where the Corsican mouflon was previously introduced. The Association of French Outfitters has initiated, together with GSCO, a hunting and conservation program for the mouflon in the south of the French mainland. From now on, the Corsican mouflon, which lives in the south of mainland France, will be called the FRENCH CORSICAN MOUFLON (Ovis gmelini Corsicana-continentis). Its range has also expanded.
Details of the mouflon conservation program, as well as the rationale for the name change, can be found in the attached GSCO article.
The Trophy Commission of the KGO decided:
Change in the OVIS KGO rating list (position 54) the name "Corsican Mouflon" to FRENCH CORSICAN MOUFLON (Ovis gmelini Corsicana-continentis)
2. Make appropriate changes to the description of the range of the species in the section "Mountain Ungulates", based on the map presented in the GSCO article.
3. Previously registered Corsican Mouflon trophies will be automatically transferred to the new category. For the members of the Club who obtained them, nothing changes.
The adopted decisions come into force on September 01, 2022.
