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Primorye: Zooprodists are trying to free the wands and beluga through the court
In Primorye, the zoo defenders appealed to the court with a request to free from the so -called "whale prison" of the wandations and beluga located in one of the bays of the region. The claim was filed by activists of three regional public organizations to the Yuzhno-Sakhalin City Court. They demand the defendants to recognize Rosprirodnadzor, as well as the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia and Rosrybolovstvo, Interfax reports .
They will begin to consider the case only after March 7, when all parties submit their reviews of the lawsuit. In addition, the zoo defenders are demanding that four commercial companies that have caught the animals for sale in foreign oceanariums: Afalin, Oceanarium DV, White Kit and Sochi Delphinarium demand. The materials also appear in the seaside border control of the FSB of Russia, which organized an independent comprehensive expert assessment of the state of the killer whales and beluga in January of this year.
According to activists, the three Belukhi have already disappeared from the "Center for Adaptation", and the state of the wanders has worsened significantly, one of them is close to death. The zoo defenders insist that animals are illegally holding in captivity in a “whale prison”, while emphasizing the presence of legal grounds for their return to the natural environment. Therefore, the plaintiffs also demand "to recognize the inaction of Rosprirodnadzor illegal." Noting that government agencies do not take any actions to save the killer whales and beluga.
Among the requirements to also recognize a number of orders of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rosrybolovniy on the approval of the general permissible catch of killer whales and Beluh in 2018, on the distribution of quotas for their catch and on approval of the plans for the implementation of fishing for cultural and educational purposes.
- On January 18, an audit organized by the Primorsky Department of the Border Service of the FSB of Russia was held at the “Adaptation Center”. Independent ecologists were first allowed to participate in the audit. Dmitry Lisitsin, one of the leaders of the "Ecological Vakt Sakhalin", later told Siberia. Reali that the state of animals is deteriorating. These marine mammals are extremely difficult to endure the closed space and separation from relatives. At the same time, experts do not have the right to disclose information on verification, this is the requirement of employees of the Investigative Committee.
- At the end of December, Lisitsyn said that due to low temperature and strong winds in Primorye in animals that are contained in the average bay, the backs and fins freeze. At that time, it was not known in what condition the animals were really in: the trace classified information about the results of the audit.
- On December 24, the Primorsky Regional Court canceled the court order in Vladivostok on the arrest as part of the criminal case of braids and Beluh. Zoojaters are afraid that now the abolders can try to send animals to foreign aquariums, although by law their sale is prohibited.
- On December 21, investigators reported that three belugas were gone from Kitov Prison, and referred to damaged networks. Environmentalists told the editorial office of Siberia. Real that the weakest and most exhausted cubs Beluh simply died due to the conditions of detention in the “whale prison”.
- According to Russian Greenpeace, the Kitolovs wanted to sell the wanders and belugs to the Chinese oceanariums. In Russia, dolphins cannot be obtained for commercial purposes, but animals were caught by cultural and educational quota. The cost of one killer whale in dolphinaries and oceanariums in China is from 1 to 15 million dollars.