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    WWF ADVOCATES LEGALIZATION OF HUNTING IN ARMENIA

    ArmInfo News Agency, Armenia
    Nov 30 2006

    Every year poachers kill about 300 bezoar goats, 30 bears and 15
    moufflons on the territory of Armenia. All these animals are registered
    in the International Red Book, Karen Manvelyan, the representative
    of the Caucasian Office of the World Wildlife Fund in Armenia, told
    an ArmInfo correspondent.

    For an efficient fight against poaching, the Armenian Government has
    worked out a draft law regulating hunting and activity of hunting
    grounds. The first public hearings of the draft law took place in the
    Yerevan office of Arhus Ecology Center. In K.Manvelyan's opinion,
    Armenia needs a legal document not only to regulate the hunting
    activity, but also organize the protection of wild animals. He
    said that some items of the bill don't comply with international
    standards. In the global practice, hunting grounds are created near
    reserved zones making hunters interested in protecting objects of
    hunting and organizing a struggle against poaching.

    The draft law doesn't stipulate the quantity of rare kinds of
    animals, hunting of which will be allowed for trophy or scientific
    reasons. In the global practice, this quantity is 0.3-0.5% of the
    general population of animals. 50% of funds received from the trophy
    hunting should be spent on recovery of the animal's population. The
    draft law should also provide for the inventory of animals which was
    held in Armenia 40 years ago. According to the WWF estimation, the
    livestock of some species of wild animals in Armenia is no more than
    250, so the hunting of them should be forbidden. The share of reserved
    zones on the territories of national parks is underestimated in the
    draft law, according to international standards, it should be no less
    than 75% of the park's territory. If all the proposals are taken into
    account, it will be possible to decrease the risks of corruption in
    the regional ecology inspections which shut their eyes to the poaching
    by high ranking officials. We are not against the law on hunting and
    hunting grounds, as forbidden fruit is sweet, K.Manvelyan said.
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