The Kazakh people’s annual Golden Eagle Festival is a chance for hunters to show off their skills and engage the next generation. Eagle hunters love to use their centuries-old horse and eagle equipment in a traditional way, from their forefathers, and … are keen to pass them on to the next generation. In order to do this, they need to show it, need to promote it, and need to be an example while they are gathering at the same place, such as the annual eagle festival. Photographers help them to promote and raise awareness.

This type of tourism also brings vital funds, without which most eagle hunters could no longer afford to train their birds; a trained golden eagle needs around 160 kilos of meat per year at no small cost. Full-time eagle hunters are also domestic animal herders and most of them have no job so they earn from tourism activities.