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Deer and Wild Goat Face Extinction!

January 23, 2012

Center for Conservation of Species Nakresi protests against the allowance of hunting on species included in the Red List. The Organization considers that the amendment endangers species which are already few, first of all – deer and wild goat.

“According to recent amendments, it is allowed to hunt on species of Red List in Georgia including the species which faced critical threat of extinction due to hunting,” – organization states.

Center for Conservation of Species Nakresi responds to the quotas for 2012 published by the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources on January 10th of 2012.

Quotas are following: “Nutria – 194, hare – 615, badger – 168, marten – 157, wolf – 120, jackal – 1453, fox – 162, wild cat – 77, wild swine – 189, roe – 417, raccoon – 96, pheasant – 416, partridge – 713, Black Francolin – 50.”

According to Nakresi, above mentioned quotas are deprived of any scientific grounds since no registration of species has been conducted in Georgia and its number is unknown: “It is completely unknown how and by what method these numbers were calculated (i.e. wild swine – 189); it is hard to see any logics in this numbers – i.e. the quota for hunting jackal is very high – 1453, as for the raccoon – 96. Wrongly determined quotas are as harmful as illegal hunting, especially when the hunting quotas are not categorized according to the regions,” – the statement of Center for Conservation of Species notes.

“Government just decided to allow hunting on the species which are included in Red Book in other words species which face threat of extinction. If hunting quotas are also determined in this way, the result will be catastrophic – we will lose certain species forever,” – Nakresi noted.

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