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The head of the Federal Property Management Agency called for an end to the killing of confiscated animals
The head of the Federal Property Management Agency, Dmitry Pristanskov, speaking at a meeting of the organizing committee for the year of ecology, announced the need to change the rules that oblige the department to sell confiscated animals at auction or kill them if there are no buyers.
As follows from the words of Pristanskov, we are talking about animals whose condition does not allow them to return to their natural habitat.
“Our proposal is as follows, <...> to offer to transfer them free of charge to environmental organizations, scientific institutes before they are sold at auction, quotes ” Interfax him. Buyers of animals at auctions, according to the head of the Federal Property Management Agency, should be banned from killing them and exporting them abroad.
“We have a situation with a lynx that was taken from poachers without a leg. The non-profit fund carried out the operation, nursed her, and then the court ruled to withdraw her from the fund and put her up for auction. Nobody needs such a lynx. The fund was ready to take it free of charge, [but] no, the court decided to put it up for sale, ”Pristanskov said.
According to the Minister of Natural Resources Sergei Donskoy, the department he heads and the Ministry of Agriculture are preparing amendments to the relevant government decree.
“I think for many it is close to a shock to find out what is happening in our law,” said Sergei Ivanov, special presidential envoy for environmental protection, ecology and transport. He called this situation a gap in the legislation, "which must be urgently corrected."