The Director of the Hunting Department at the Ministry of Natural Resources, Tatiana Armileva, called on the regional authorities to prepare proposals for changing legislation to regulate emergency shooting of dangerous predators in populated areas. Two options are being considered: to remove such actions from the concept of hunting in order to regulate numbers, or to establish a special procedure in art. 48 of the hunting law.

The Director of the Hunting Department at the Ministry of Natural Resources, Tatiana Armileva, called on the regional authorities to prepare proposals for changing legislation to regulate emergency shooting of dangerous predators in populated areas. Two options are being considered: to remove such actions from the concept of hunting in order to regulate numbers, or to establish a special procedure in art. 48 of the hunting law.

Currently, administrative responsibility is given for shooting in unspecified places, and criminal responsibility is given for illegal hunting in the presence of signs of a crime according to Article 258 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. In this context, Armileva ordered her department, together with the Russian Guard, the Ministry of the Interior and the Attorney General's Office, to work on the issue of preparing clarifications on the implementation of Articles 37 and 39 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, regarding necessary protection and extreme necessity from attacks by wild animals. Separately, we should consider using rules for calculating large and especially large damages in such situations.

At the same time, Department of Natural Resources officials are developing a mechanism for federal subsidies to areas to prevent conflicts with brown bears. The document provides for payments of up to 50 thousand rubles. Tatiana Armilieva also ordered to study the possibility of expanding funding for regulating the number of wolves and compensating for the corresponding expenses of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

In addition, the Ministry of Natural Resources accelerated the decision-making on regulating the number of hunting resources in the event of a threat to human health in specially protected federal nature areas. Instead of the previous five days, six hours are now allocated for preparing the document and signing, and another two for registration and sending. If it is impossible to allow shooting, the competent body must send a reasoned refusal.