European Wolves

[peter]

WOLF KILLED IN BELO-RUSSIA (graphic)

I found this article a few days ago on the site of the national broadcasting company of The Netherlands (the NOS). The title of the article ('One wolf nearly earns this hunter from Belo-Russia a months' salary') strongly suggests that the hunter is in it for the money, but that's isn't quite true. He has a job and only hunts wolves in winter. Farmers hire him, because wolves kill domestic animals at times. Every wolf pays 75 euros.

In that part of Europe (close to the border between Belo-Russia and Ukraine), wolves can be dangerous for humans as well. They have been killed by wolves in the Baltic countries and I'm not only referring to incidents that happened a century ago. For orientation, go to the map in the first post of this thread.

It's not that far from Tjernobyl, where a nuclear reactor exploded in the eighties of the last century. It's still a no-go area. The result is animals prosper.

The photographs are brutal: 

http://nos.nl/artikel/2158552-in-beeld-een-wolf-levert-wit-russische-jager-bijna-een-maandsalaris-op.html Reply