EcoLur
WWF Armenia is launching new studies – this time on wolves. “We should study the main places where conflicts between wolves and people occur and proposals should be made how to mitigate this conflict,” said WWF Armenia Director Karen Manvelyan at the press conference held at EcoLur Press Club on 22 May.
“If a wolf is killed, especially if chief mother wolf is killed, the other bitch wolves immediately start reproducing. And, as a matter of fact, their population increases,” Karen Manvelyan said.
Reminder: the Armenian Government sees the solution of the problem how to protect villages from wolves in killing them. On 10 February 2011 the government adopted a decision entitled “On Regulating Number of Wolves and Approving Procedure Implementation”, which resulted in permit of killing 100 wolves in 2011 and 200 in 2012, under the official data.
In parallel with wolf killing “Save Wolves” group was created on Facebook, which deals with the protection of wolves. “Rather serious people have joined the group and studied what is the situation in Armenia. We asked Karen Manvelyan, and he helped us. I think we will have rather profound data on the number of wolves, their spread and naturally there will be attempts to speak with the public and to conduct seminars so people could understand that wolves mustn’t be killed. In this regard, we should have a seminar with Nature Protection Minister and explain them they won’t benefit from killing such a number of wolves,” said Silva Adamyan, Chairman of “Center for Bird Lovers” NGO.
In his turn, Karen Manvelyan noted there is a notion of creating insurance system to compensate villagers having suffered from wolf attacks.
May 27, 2013 at 14:50