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Primorye: the Ministry of Natural Resources will release braids and beluga until the end of August
The Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of Russia Dmitry Kobylkin said that the wandations and Belukh would be released from the "whale prison" in the Bay of the Middle Primorsky Territory in July-August of this year. He reported this to TASS.
"It will definitely be a summer period. I would like it to be faster. I think it will definitely be July-August, August is the deadline," Kobylkin said.
He noted that, according to experts, animals will be able to adapt in nature, since in a year they have not lost their skills for life in a wild environment. As for the intake of animals - it is still not defined.
"The Russian Academy of Sciences says that in principle, you can release a secondary person in the Bay. Niru (the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography-CR) says that it is better where the Chantarsky Islands are caught. Transportation is not easy to this place, so all the options are now calculated," the minister said.
- According to the Russian Greenpeace, the Kitolovs wanted to sell the wanders and belugs to the Chinese aquariums. 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.
- Two of the four companies engaged in capture braids and beluga, located in a “whale prison” in Primorye, admitted that they made animals by order of foreign oceanariums.
- At the end of April, the scientific consultation of Rosrybolovy allowed to release all the killer whales and beluga. Prior to this, the team of Jean-Michel Coustea studied animals and allowed them to release them.
- On May 31, the court recognized illegal decisions of the Rosrybolovstvo on the distribution of quotas on the capture of the wares and belugs to the companies "Afalin", "White Kit", "Oceanarium DV" and "Sochi Dolphinarium". The lawsuit was filed by three public organizations: "Ecological Watch of Sakhalin", the club "Boomerang" and "Friends of the Ocean". At the same time, activists demanded that Rosprirodnadzor remove animals that were already in the so -called “whale prison” and release them to the will, but they were refused this.
- In early June, it became known that the detectors lead free excursions to Kitov Prison. According to the zoo defenders, so the animals will get used to a person even more and will not be able to survive in the wild in their own. In the "whale prison" excursions were explained by the fact that the deputers were not transferred for reactication. At the same time, employees, according to one of the directors of the firms, can only adapt animals to humans, and not vice versa.