Ruslan Isayev / Prague Watchdog / September 25, 2007 In Chechnya this year there have been several reports of wolves appearing near populated areas. At night the predators lose their fear and apprehension and find their way into hen-houses and sheds on private land, where they inflict losses on the owners of livestock. The residents […]
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Leonid Barkov / The Moscow News / June 12, 2004 Manhunt I first met Dmitry Vasnetsov when he was an ordinary machine operator. Once, in the mid-1980s, the future farmer waxed eloquent trying to convince me of the advantages of “non-regulated production units” schemes, and I was hardly surprised to learn that he soon became
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Mary Rochelle / Biology 103 / Bryn Mawr College Recently there has been a debate between the Russian government and conservationists about the wolf population in the country. The Russian government offers a bounty to anyone who kills a wolf outside of a nature preserve in the country because the wolves have been estimated to
Bounties Are Paid for Wolf Kills CNN News / December 2000 VORONEZH, Russia — Russian conservationists are facing a growing dilemma over how to control the 44,000 wolves estimated to be roaming the countryside. There are fears that the wolf population is beginning to rise out of control, with officials saying thousands need to be
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“Cheers to Friendship” Source: Pravda Once upon a time, a pack of wolves lived in the forest. Their leader was very old. One day, when the pack was going for hunting, the leader said he was not capable of leading them. A young strong wolf approached the leader and asked him to allow him to
Hunting has for centuries been an essential part of life in the Russia’s republic of Kalmykia. However, it is now coming under restriction due to a recent presidential decree in the region, aimed at protecting animals Russia Today / November 2008 Hunters argue, however, that they perform an important function, protecting livestock from wolves which
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Russian Hunting Agency / St. Petersburg, Russia The habitat of the wolf covers huge territories from the western borders of Russia to the shores of the Pacific Ocean, and from the Arctic Tundra to the steppes of Kazakhstan and Mongolia. The population of this highly-adaptable animal has been stable for years, and in some areas
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Wolves in Russia Marcus Wohlsen / GORP Owing to its currently volitile political and economic situation, Russia is in a less than ideal position to promote the kind of strict environmental regulations that have proven necessary to protect wolf populations in other parts of the world. Nevertheless, packs continue to thrive here in greater numbers
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By: Evgeni Okhtin, Chief of the Russian Independent Research Group In September 1998, Wolf Song of Alaska entered into an exchange of information about wolves in Russia and the former Soviet Union. Our Executive Director, Tom Talasz, began a dialog with Evgeni Okhtin, Chief of the Russian Independent Research Group. Very little is known about
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