ArmInfo
Safari International has removed from its web-site the advertisement about hunting tours in Armenia.
To remind, for several years already the web-site has been criticized by Armenian environmentalists for advertising rare animal hunting in the country. Particularly, it offered hunting bezoar goats and mouflons for 7,900 EUR and 8,900 EUR, respectively. For 3,500 EUR one could kill a Caucasian bear. The organizers of the tours promised result in just 3-5 days.
The Ministry of Environment Protection of Armenia was passive and did not respond to ecologists' calls in the press.
And now, after so many years, the advertisement has been removed. But don't hurry to be happy: there still are dozens of links all over internet. One of the links is located on the selfsame site - internationalhunter.com - and offers bezoar goat hunting opportunities.
To remind, Apr 27 Head of the Specially Protected Territories Department of the Environment Protection Ministry Aram Aghassyan supported Safari International. He said that in the last years the number of bezoar goats in Vayots Dzor region has increased manyfold due to the active anti-poaching efforts by the local governor, the manager of the Armenian office of Safari Vardges Matevossyan. "There have been several cases in the international practice when such achievements served as a basis for hunting permission," Aghassyan said.
April 29, 2010