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Official Letter No. АА-10-05-27/10518 of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology containing information note on hunting.

Country/Territory
Russian Federation
Document type
Miscellaneous
Date
2020
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Food & nutrition, Wild species & ecosystems, General
Keyword
Indigenous peoples Game Food security Wild fauna Hunting/capture Hunting rights
Geographical area
Arctic, Asia and the Pacific, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Eastern Europe, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Pacific, North-West Pacific
Abstract

Director of Federal Supervision Service on Nature Management, with a view of prevention of the spread of a new coronavirus infection (COVID-19), retains it necessary to impose prohibition or restriction on hunting on the territory o regions of the Russian Federation with the minimum period until 1 May 2020. At the same time, when making a decision to introduce restrictions on hunting in the territory of the Russian Federation constituent entities, we consider it necessary to pay special attention to the interests of the categories of population for which hunting is the traditional activity and is performed for subsistence, including indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation.

Full text
Russian
Website
www.pravo.gov.ru