The expert council on nature reserves appealed to the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources with a proposal to clarify and consolidate the rules on shooting and capturing of animals in specially protected natural areas (SPNA), which include nature reserves, hunting reserves and national parks, the newspaper wrote. . “News”referring to the relevant objection of this public body.
Regulatory measures are necessary in such areas to modify or protect the numbers of individual species. The council letter stated that these help maintain ecological balance and should be scientifically based.
The number of animals can be regulated by catching or shooting. The authors of the document reminded that such a measure should be considered exceptional and allowed only in individual cases. For example, if the number of an animal has increased too much and threatens protected natural complexes.
“The history of the native nature reserve business over the past 50 years is replete with examples of ill-conceived, erroneous ideas based on ill-conceived and ineffective implementation of regulatory measures in protected areas of federal importance,” the council’s letter says.
The authors of the appeal noted that when making such decisions, it is necessary to calculate risks more carefully in order to avoid undesirable environmental consequences, opportunities for corruption and poaching, and the negative image of the region in the eyes of local residents. population. They called for the development and adoption of a legal act that would regulate the organization and implementation of measures to regulate the number of wild animals in national parks and reserves.
Before that activists said About the mass disappearance of stray animals in various regions of Russia.
Earlier, two officials from the village administration in the Ryazan region accused in poisoning of dogs.