User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter XX Discussion/@comment-31153175-20170130084837/@comment-6050823-20170131060701

^ He means the Hunting Ban has been lifted off them, meaning we can hunt them legally in this game The Main Series and Frontier Series mentions this a lot every time a new monster or old monster appears. A perfect example is Seregios: Few hunters were allowed to hunt them due to a hunting ban. After they started taking over certain territories in some regions, the hunting ban was lifted, which allowed more hunters to hunt down the Seregios species.