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It is true that not so many hunters gathered next to the ministry, only a couple of dozen people marched next to the building and across the street, bringing a dozen dogs and honking horns.
What is hunters’ response to the public about bow hunting? Interview with Ramute Juknyte, the organizer of the hunters’ rally.
The news portal tv3.lt recalls that protesters urged passers-by to join or put up posters supporting the hunt. The hunters at this protest may have wanted to express their support for the minister, who listened to their wishes and changed the hunting rules, causing considerable public outrage.
Minister K. Mažeika himself is a passionate hunter, and the changes in hunting rules were made by offering to hunters themselves, listening to their wishes to hunt at night, with dogs, bows or near reserves.
Although K. Mažeika canceled one of the points of the rules that allowed hunting with bows, the others remained. They will probably be negotiated abruptly, not in public.
“Once the Hunting Council has reached an agreement on specific points, it will be proposed that the Ministry include them in the next version of the rules. If an agreement is not reached, the rules will not be changed,” said Justas Jaskonis, Advisor to the Minister of the Environment, to BNS.
The topic of archery will be discussed at the Friday meeting, as well as other adjusted elements of the Hunting Rules related to hunting deadlines, the use of searchlights and dogs, as well as other topics.
Members of the Seimas Environmental Protection Committee are also invited to participate in the session. Representatives or managers of the Forest Institute of the Lithuanian Center for Agrarian and Forest Sciences, the Lithuanian Ornithological Society, the European Federation of Hunters, the Lithuanian Teriological Society, the Baltic Environmental Forum, the Union of Lithuanian Hound Breeders and the Center for Ecosystem Protection are also invited to attend.
Currently, the Minister’s order on the Hunting Rules amendment, signed in early May, has not been revoked, although K. Mažeika stated that he was suspending this order, and Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis also encouraged it.
This order was ordered to be harmonized before May 29 and is being prepared to amend it in accordance with the Hunting Council’s recommendations adopted on Friday.
The decision caused a scandal.
In early May, K. Mažeika supplemented the Hunting Rules with a clause allowing archery starting in 2022. He said he had heeded the recommendation of the Hunting Council.
In the event of public outrage and the arrival of the Prime Minister, K. Mažeika withdrew the possibility of using bows in hunting from 2022. However, conservation organizations have asked the minister to withdraw other amendments.
They also criticize the legalized permit to hunt invasive animals in the dark in the dark, the use of spotlights to hunt more than wild boars, the widespread term for badger hunting, the lifting of the lure ban in the 300-meter area around of nature reserves, reserves and more.
The Minister’s order also extended the hunting terms for certain species:
Male elk can be hunted starting September 1. Until december 31. Before that until December 15.
Female Moose – Oct. 1. until November 30. Before that until November 15.
Female red deer and cubs: October 1 to January 31. It was until January 15.
Stirninus: from May 1 to October 31. It was from May 15 to October 15.
Gray rabbits: There are no more bans to organize only 2 hunts.
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