Hunting
Bushat has a shortage of environmental NGOs. Their activity would add value to environmental awareness and education of the local community. Environmental NGO-s might provide environmental knowledge and training for other civil society organization in the area. In Bushat there is the Jakup Bajri Hunter’s Association which numbers 126 members. However, there are 750 licensed hunting weapons in the commune, not to mention hunting weapons held without a permit. The association is making efforts to bring these people into the Association which would place hunting under control and allow local tax authorities to collect the hunting tax. In the entire area, hunting takes place in groups, mainly in the flat area: Mountain of Jushi, Zefjana, the Hills of Bushat, Plezha and Shkjeza, along the side of the Drin River (Stajkë – Kosmaç segment). The commune is visited by foreign hunters, unfortunately even outside the hunting season. To prevent these actions and protect fauna in the region, certain legal steps and/or legal changes and amendments can be made. The enforcement of every hunter to appear before the Hunters Association to declare, in accordance with the law, their activity, destination and duration of hunting will not only provide them with legal authorization to hunt and the local authorities with power to collect the due tax, but will also give the individual hunters the opportunity to receive information about the zone they are hunting in. In addition, steps should be taken to make accountable to law all those individuals who keep hunting weapons without permission. To place the situation under control, legal powers can be vested with hunting authorities in the area to inspect, jointly with police and forest authorities, the use of hunting weapons. To protect flora and fauna from damage and disappearance, hunting should be banned for a three year period. The period will serve for the recovery of living organisms and the creation of new species populations. As a start, the Mountain of Jushi can be a pilot and then expand to the swamp of Gjinal bordering on Velipoja and work may continue with other parts. During the conservation time, the areas should be protected with guards.