Russia mulls total ban on game hunting

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Russia mulls total ban on game hunting
Russia may soon ban both amateur and professional hunting, only allowing indigenous peoples in remote regions and certified rangers to hunt.

MP Oleg Mikheyev of the center-left Fair Russia parliamentary party told reporters on Monday that he had entered a draft law on hunting for preliminary discussion.

Mikheyev expressed his belief that hunting is unnecessary and immoral, regardless of whether one sees it as a sport, a pastime or an industry. “What many people call hunting now is more of a cruel killing that has nothing in common with the ancient art of fair competition between a man and a beast,” Mikheyev said in a press interview.

The MP noted that modern hunters use helicopters and specially built towers, and that in Russia’s Far…

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4 thoughts on “Russia mulls total ban on game hunting

  1. Please let this happen

    From: Exposing the Big Game Reply-To: Exposing the Big Game Date: Sunday, May 17, 2020 at 5:32 PM To: louise kane Subject: [New post] Russia mulls total ban on game hunting

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  2. This is a very interesting post – however, it is from 2013. What is the situation today?

    Best regards,

    Helle Juntermanns

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