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Wolf Number Regulation and Measure Taking Committee established by the Nature Protection Minister’s order will start accepting wolf furs from 7 May.
As the Information and Public Relations Department of Nature Protection Ministry informs, the wolf furs will be accepted each Thursday, from 14:00 to 18:00, at B\the building of Zoology Institute of National Academy of Sciences (address: Yerevan, Paruyr Sevak 7, the entrance is from the yard). The hunters will be awarded with 100,000 AMD for each wolf fur.
The reward won’t be provided, if the wolf fur is submitted later than the deadline, the hunter has a hunting license or it’s expired, the wolf won’t be hunted in prohibited manners etc.
Such encouragement by the government is conditioned with the need to protect the communities from wolf attacks and to regulate the number of wolves in Armenia, while the increase in the wolf number is explained as follows, “During the last thirty years no reward mechanisms were applied for wolf elimination and the absence of such practice has led to the increase in the wolf number. This circumstance caused not only socio-economic, but also serious environmental problems, which is, for example, recorded for a number of species in Khosrov Forest and Shikahogh state reserves, including damage caused to red-listed species.”
May 05, 2015 at 12:34