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Ecologists protest against the suggestions of the Ministry of Natural Resources to move the braids
The public coalition "Freedom to Kosatka and Belukham" announced a protest to the offer of the Ministry of Natural Resources on the movement of marine mammals from the "whale prison" in the Primorsky Bay of the still not existing "center" on the island of Russian. Environmentalists believe that in anticipation of the construction of a center for marine animals, the wanders and belugas will have to spend several months in unsanitary conditions, the editorial office of Siberia. Rodniks Nina Zyryanova said.
The main arguments of the coalition of zoo defenders against the proposal of the Ministry of Natural Resources are the antisanitarian conditions for the detention of animals in the seaside "whale prison" and the poor state of water off the coast of the island of Russian, where the construction of a special center is planned. Activists also recalled that the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia confirmed the illegality of catching killer whales and beluga contained in the Middle Bay.
SR in mobile SR on Instagram Wed Facebook"Corruption officials of the Federal Reserve with a strange certificate (the document is at the disposal of the editorial office) proving that" whale prison is profitable and humane, "they run around the government and prove that the president’s disposal makes no sense," Zyryanova said.
According to the document, among the disadvantages of the release of marine mammals into the natural habitat, the penalty is indicated that the Russian government will allegedly be forced to pay companies that ordered the catch of killer whales and Belukh, and a decrease in the “investment attractiveness of Russia”, which will cause non -compliance with international contracts.
Yesterday, at the meeting held by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Government, Alexei Gordeev, it was decided to move the killer whales and beluga, which are in the "whale prison" in the Middle Bay, to the center of maintenance of large marine animals after it warms in the Primorye. The center, according to officials, will be specially equipped in one of the bays of the Russian island. The participants in the meeting decided to release mammals into the natural habitat "only in the absence of risks for their life", and to chip all braids and beluga. What will happen to animals if experts decide that they cannot be released in the natural environment - it is not reported.
- On March 4, experts found that a killer whale disappeared from the “whale prison”, which looked the most patient during examination in January. The zoo defenders stated that the animal died. The abolders insist that the braid broke the network and fled. Scientists of the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Moscow State Academy of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology have confirmed a serious deterioration in the state of killer whales and Belukh from the Kitov prison in Primorye in just two months.
- On January 18, a check organized by the Primorsky Directorate of the Border Service of the FSB of Russia was held in Kitov Prison. Independent ecologists were first allowed to participate in the audit. Dmitry Lisitsyn later told the editors of Siberia. Real that the state of animals is deteriorating. These marine mammals are extremely difficult to endure the closed space and separation from relatives.
- On December 21, investigators reported that three belugas were gone from Kitov Prison, and referred to damaged networks. Ecologists told the editors of Siberia. Reali 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.