SAFARI INTERNATIONAL REMOVES FROM ITS WEB-SITE ADVERTISEMENT ABOUT HUNTING TOURS IN ARMENIA
ArmInfo
2010-04-28 18:56:00
ArmInfo. Safari International has removed from its web-site the
advertisement about hunting tours in Armenia.
To remind, for several years already the web-site has been criticized
by Armenian environmentalists for advertising rare animal hunting
in the country. Particularly, it offered hunting bezoar goats and
mouflons for 7,900 EUR and 8,900 EUR, respectively. For 3,500 EUR
one could kill a Caucasian bear. The organizers of the tours promised
result in just 3-5 days.
The Ministry of Environment Protection of Armenia was passive and
did not respond to ecologists’ calls in the press.
And now, after so many years, the advertisement has been removed. But
don’t hurry to be happy: there still are dozens of links all
over internet. One of the links is located on the selfsame site –
internationalhunter.com – and offers bezoar goat hunting opportunities.
To remind, Apr 27 Head of the Specially Protected Territories
Department of the Environment Protection Ministry Aram Aghassyan
supported Safari International. He said that in the last years the
number of bezoar goats in Vayots Dzor region has increased manyfold
due to the active anti-poaching efforts by the local governor, the
manager of the Armenian office of Safari Vardges Matevossyan. "There
have been several cases in the international practice when such
achievements served as a basis for hunting permission," Aghassyan said.