Hunting in Romania (Yugoslavia) hunted in Romania at Ceaușescu's invitation and used many of the designated hunting chalets and chateaux domains like Lăpuşna or Scrovistea for big game hunting. Between 1955–1989 it is unofficially estimated that Ceaușescu's hunting parties shot over 4000 brown bears. Starting in 1966, he also introduced mouflons as game animals at Neguresti, Timiş and Scrovistea but the numbers remain very low. After the fall of the communism, hunting returned to normal and was promoted, and foreign hunters also started to come. The country is now an international destination for sportsmen. One of these was King Juan Carlos of Spain,
Elephant hunting in Kenya of an Elephant Hunter" (1923), for more information. Some of the madness of the desire to shoot an elephant (albeit not in Kenya) is shown in "White Hunter Black Heart", a fictionalised version of what happened during the filming of the Hollywood classic "African Queen". In 1963, the first year of independence, the Kenyan government issued 393 permits (hunting licenses) for elephants. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Kenyan poacher received approximately Shs. 3-4/lb ($.79–1.05/kg); by the 1970s, it was Shs. 100/kg ($12.74/kg), increasing the black market value for the primary producer from about one-fifth to one-third of the real