Hunting scandal in Armenia

The Ministry of Ecology of Armenia addressed the police in relation to the video material in which “green” activists found cases of illegal hunting for Red Book animals in the Hosrovsky Reserve, the head of the ministry Aram Arutyunian stated, News Armenia reports.

The video on Facebook shows fragments of corpses of Red Book animals, also vestiges of fires and empty vodka bottles.

The minister has ordered that the place where the video was shot be found.

Arutyunian emphasized that during the recent week no groups requested permission for entering the reserve. The minister also concedes that the video might not have been shot in the Hosrovsky Reserve.