EXECUTIVE: WOLVES IN ARMENIA INCREASED, AS NO REWARD WAS GRANTED FOR WOLF ELIMINATION

14:19 April 17, 2015

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On 16 April the executive adopted a decision to increase the reward set
for killed wolves making it 123,346 from 100,000 AMD. The procedure
of granting rewards has been made stricter. 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.”

From: A. Papazian