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Last week, Arūnas Pranaitis, director of the Žuvintas Biosphere Reserve, noted that after the government changed the reserve’s regulations, the hunting ban remained in effect only in the central part of the biosphere reserve. : Žuvintas Nature Reserve.
The Minister of the Environment, Kęstutis Mažeika, accused A. Pranaitis of deceiving people, as hunting in the biosphere reserve was and is prohibited.
“It is really regulated by legal acts and it is regrettable that the head of the directorate has misled the public, hunting is definitely not possible, it is prohibited, as before,” K. Mažeika told Lithuanian Radio in an interview on Monday.
Photo by Sigismund Gedvila / 15min / Kęstutis Mažeika
Finally, the Ministry of the Environment announced its intention to put fuses in the Hunting Regulations.
Legislative disorder
15 minutes Last week, he asked the ministry to come up with specific points in the legislation prohibiting hunting in the Žuvintas Biosphere Reserve.
Ministry on Tuesday 15 minutes He noted that VSTT specialists had analyzed the documents and provided a certificate.
According to the Ministry, the certificate establishes that the territory of the Žuvintas Biosphere Reserve is a complex protected area. It is divided into the following areas:
- conservation (nature reserves and nature reserves),
- ecological priorities, ecosystem restoration,
- economic activities (forestry and agriculture).
According to the Service, the prohibitions for activities in protected areas are established in the Law of Special Conditions of Land Use, and in accordance with the Law of Protected Areas, the peculiarities of the protection and management of protected areas are described in the regulation.
The provisions of the Fishing Biosphere Reserve approved in 2020 July 1 Paragraph 12 establishes that hunting in the biosphere reserve is carried out “in accordance with the legislation that regulates hunting.”
It is noted that there are no references to other legislation on hunting restrictions.
Photo by Artūras Lavrėnovas / Žuvintas Biosphere Reserve
“In the Hunting Law, the hunting prohibition is established only in the natural reserves of the biosphere reserve, but other areas (reserves, etc.) are not mentioned in this law. The legal acts that directly regulate hunting do not establish prohibitions on hunting, but there is an additional legal regulation ”, emphasizes VSTT.
According to the Office, the management plan for the Žuvintas Biosphere Reserve (approved by the Government) Point 12 establishes that the protection and management of important areas for the protection of these species in the areas of importance for the protection of these species will apply to the protection of habitats of black grouse and groups of migratory water birds, grasshoppers and white geese. , priority areas of agricultural and ecological protection and areas of restoration of ecosystems in agricultural lands. in the Regulation of Important Bird Areas (BAST / PAST), so hunting is prohibited in most of the Žuvintas Biosphere Reserve.
However, the Office observes that, according to p. 12 of the decisions of the Management Plan. The provisions of BAST / PAST do not apply to reserves located in the Žuvintas Biosphere Reserve (Liepakoja Botanical, Amalvas Botanical-Zoological, Kiaulyčia Botanical-Zoological, Paželsviai Botanical-Zoological, Žaltytis Botanical-Zoological, Territorial-Zoological-Zoological ), Želsva Botanical-Zoological regulated and performed in a general way.
That’s about 34 percent, according to VSTT. all areas of the Žuvintas Biosphere Reserve.
The Service also affirms that the validity of the opinion publicly expressed by A. Praanaitis, director of the Žuvintas Biosphere Reserve, “will be evaluated in accordance with the procedure established by legal acts.”
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