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Bi-National Socioeconomic Handbook 2018 “Laredos Region“

Hunting Tourism

The Region is well known for its diversified livestock perfect place to find the best White Tail Deer trophies,
activity. For decades our region has distinguished itself for with prepared ranches for this practice and farmer hosts
being natural habitat of the Texan White-Tail Deer. Since who make the hunting athletes feel at home.
the 70s some farmers of our region started to rent their
ranches for the responsible hunting of the deer, which
helped the animal breeding and ecosystem, helping with
the overload of bovine and goat cattle, achieving better
natural pastures and herbs to feed their livestock and the
different species of the native wildlife.
The conservation of the different species on hunting
interest carried out for the farmers of the region, provoke
a positive impact in the restoration of the ecosystem.
The conservation work, the decrease of poaching,
plague control, as well as the practices of improvement
of soil and water harvesting, boosted an increase in the
population of hunting species, such as deer, collared
peccary (boars), puma, wildcat, coyote, white-winged
dove, rabbit, mourning dove, and quails, as well as other
flora and fauna species. The farmers understood that
the cohabitation between domestic and wild species
is possible and that through sustainable practices, the
wildlife is an alternative source of income for the Mexican
field.

In the mid-80s is founded in Nuevo Laredo the Diversified
Farmers Association (ANGADI) which improve the wildlife
management and the deer genetics, having up to 800
ranches available in the region to practice responsible
hunting, it is worth mentioning that the census
performed in the 70s yield results of almost 60,000 deer,
among males, females and fawns, the current census
mark almost 450,000.

Thanks to coordination between farmers and the
government, we have a responsible hunt enjoyed by
National and Foreign hunters who see in this region the

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