The Cheka-OGPU found out that yesterday the first witness was interrogated – Alexander Aleksandrovich Selnitsin, who holds the position of assistant at the department of state hunting supervision of licensing activities and the state hunting register of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Kamchatka Territory. According to him, he took part in the inspection of the caught gyrfalcons: they were all younger than 1 year and in good condition. According to the scientific program of the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Ecology, chicks under 1 year of age were planned to be caught from the wild, but the condition of the gyrfalcons changed greatly after the detention of the expedition members. So, after the birds were removed from the Kamchatka Falcon Center and placed in the Elizovo Zoo, two of the thirteen chicks have already died. Another detail that emerged at the trial is the active assistance to the investigation from former activists of the World Wildlife Fund, which is banned in Russia. Previously, this organization itself participated in the capture of falcons, after which the rare birds ended up abroad.
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In Kamchatka, during a recent bird-catching expedition organized by the Ministry of Natural Resources, for which permission was received to catch 15 birds (13 were caught and put on the balance sheet of the Russian Federation), its participants were attacked by local security forces. They beat…
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