PROBLEM WITH WOLVES DISCUSSED WITH NATURE PROTECTION MINISTER

14:28 March 23, 2015

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Nature Protection Minister Aramayis Grigoryan received Karine Panosyan,
Coordinator of “Save Wolves” Civic Initiative, members Silva Adamyan
(Center for Bird Lovers), Karine Danielyan (For Sustainable Human
Development), Nare Armayan and Lilit Grigoryan. They wanted to find
other ways of solution in cooperation with the Nature Protection
Ministry.

The Nature Protection Minister outlined that the serious increase
in the number of wolves in recent years caused socio-economic, as
well as environmental problems. Aramayis Grigoryan informed that the
studies showed that killed wolves are young or old individual wolves
evicted from their packs existing in natural ecosystem, who approach
the residential areas to occupy new areas and to find food.

The minister outlined that wolf hunting is allowed only in the adjacent
residential areas.

Nature Protection Minister Aramayis Grigoryan said that they take
measures to increase forest-covered areas, particularly, at the
meeting of the council adjunct to Nature Protection Ministry it was
proposed to separate those areas with scientific substantiations,
where forestation measures will be effective.