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DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF "AREVIK" NATIONAL PARK KILLED THE LAST LEOPARD LIVING AT THE TERRITORY OF THE PARK
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Wednesday, November 28, 12:48
According to the monitoring of WWF, there are only 4-5 Caucasus
leopards in Armenia.
This number has not been changed for many years. "This number does not
grow, as we do not have territorial leopards which do not migrate and
stay in Armenia and brood", - the head of WWF-Armenia, Karen Manvelyan,
said to Arminfo correspondent. He also added that the last territorial
leopard was killed in 2006 by the present deputy director of "Arevik"
National Park, known by his nickname "Shakal Hovik".
The ecologists often raise a problem that often persons which poach are
appointed to the leading positions at specially guided territories. For
instance, a poacher with a nickname "Nono" has been recently appointed
to the position of director of Khosrof reservation.
After that WWF-Armenia and Caucasus Nature Fund stopped financing
the reservation.
As for the population of leopards, Manvelyan hopes that opening of
specially guided territories in the south of Armenia will attract
these rare animals. He said that a new closed wood Khustup will be
created in the south and the territory of Zangezur closed wood will
be increased. "We hope that all this will make it possible to have
territorial leopards in Armenia", - he said.
http://www.arminfo.am/index.cfm?objectid=C7D45DD0-3940-11E2-864BF6327207157C
Wednesday, November 28, 12:48
According to the monitoring of WWF, there are only 4-5 Caucasus
leopards in Armenia.
This number has not been changed for many years. "This number does not
grow, as we do not have territorial leopards which do not migrate and
stay in Armenia and brood", - the head of WWF-Armenia, Karen Manvelyan,
said to Arminfo correspondent. He also added that the last territorial
leopard was killed in 2006 by the present deputy director of "Arevik"
National Park, known by his nickname "Shakal Hovik".
The ecologists often raise a problem that often persons which poach are
appointed to the leading positions at specially guided territories. For
instance, a poacher with a nickname "Nono" has been recently appointed
to the position of director of Khosrof reservation.
After that WWF-Armenia and Caucasus Nature Fund stopped financing
the reservation.
As for the population of leopards, Manvelyan hopes that opening of
specially guided territories in the south of Armenia will attract
these rare animals. He said that a new closed wood Khustup will be
created in the south and the territory of Zangezur closed wood will
be increased. "We hope that all this will make it possible to have
territorial leopards in Armenia", - he said.