Hunting in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is regulated through legal provisions under Agriculture Law No. (13) of 2015, which aims to protect wildlife.
Article 56 (A)
The Minister shall issue instructions regulating the protection of wild birds and wild animals, their hunting and trade, and the trade in ornamental fish, in a manner consistent with international agreements related to the protection of wild birds and animals, including the following:
- Determining the conditions for granting hunting licenses, setting hunting license fees, and specifying the authorities responsible for issuing licenses and collecting fees.
- Determining the areas where hunting is permitted and the hunting seasons.
- Determining the species of wild birds and wild animals whose hunting, possession, transport, sale, or offering for sale is prohibited.
- Determining the species of wild birds that may be traded and the conditions for licensing facilities trading in wild birds and ornamental fish.
- Determining the technical and health conditions that must be met by zoos.
- Determining the conditions for keeping, protecting, feeding, transporting, handling, and using experimental animals in scientific research.
Article 57 (B)
The Minister shall form a special committee for the protection of wildlife, and the decision forming the committee shall define its tasks and methods of work.
Article 57 (C)
It is prohibited to carry out any of the following acts:
- Hunting wild birds or wild animals without a license, or hunting in prohibited areas or during prohibited times.
- Importing or exporting wild birds or wild animals into or out of the Kingdom, alive or dead, without the Minister’s approval.
- Killing, possessing, transporting, selling, or offering for sale wild birds or wild animals.
- Hunting birds of prey or predatory wild animals by any means without a special permit from the Minister.
- Tampering with the dens of wild animals or the nests of wild birds, collecting or destroying their eggs, or harming their young.
- Using vehicles, searchlights, or automatic weapons in hunting wild birds or wild animals.
- Hunting wild animals using firearms not designated for hunting, except for animals specified by the Minister.
- Using sticky or adhesive substances to hunt wild birds.
- Using poisonous substances or narcotic drugs to kill or hunt wild birds or wild animals, for any reason.
- Setting any type of traps, using camouflage tools such as flags, animal skins, or calling devices, or establishing camouflage structures such as hides and cages to capture wild birds or wild animals.
- Hunting from telephone or electricity lines, within municipal or village council boundaries, inhabited agricultural areas, populated areas, within grazing reserves or nature reserves, or near Jordanian Armed Forces camps.
- Cruelty to animals.
Article 57 (D)
- Anyone who violates the provisions of items (1), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), and (12) of paragraph (C) of this Article shall be punished by a fine of not less than 100 Jordanian Dinars and not more than 300 Jordanian Dinars.
- Anyone who violates the provisions of item (2) of paragraph (C) of this Article shall be punished by a fine of not less than 200 Jordanian Dinars and not more than 1,000 Jordanian Dinars.
- Anyone who violates the provisions of either item (3) or (4) of paragraph (C) of this Article shall be punished by a fine of not less than 250 Jordanian Dinars and not more than 1,000 Jordanian Dinars.
Article 57 (E)
Wild birds and wild animals whose hunting is prohibited shall be classified, according to their level of protection, into three lists under a regulation issued for this purpose. Anyone who hunts a wild bird or wild animal listed in these lists shall be punished as follows:
- Imprisonment for four months and a fine of 2,000 Jordanian Dinars for each wild bird or wild animal hunted that is listed in the first list.
- Imprisonment for three months and a fine of 1,000 Jordanian Dinars for each wild bird or wild animal hunted that is listed in the second list.
- Imprisonment for one month and a fine of 100 Jordanian Dinars for each wild bird or wild animal hunted that is listed in the third list.
Article 57 (F)
Anyone who hunts, without a license, any endangered wild bird or endangered wild animal not listed in the lists issued under the regulation referred to in paragraph (E) of this Article—except for wild boar—shall be punished by imprisonment for seven days and a fine of 25 Jordanian Dinars for each wild bird or wild animal hunted.
Article 57 (G)
In addition to the penalties stipulated in this Article, wild birds, wild animals, weapons, tools, and materials used in hunting shall be confiscated.
Article 57 (H)
If a violation of the provisions of this Article is repeated within one year of its commission, the fine imposed on the offender shall be doubled, in addition to the other penalties stipulated therein.
Reference: Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature (RSCN)Link: https://lawenforcement.rscn.org.jo/قوانين-الصيد
