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In November last year, the Šakiai Palace of the Marijampolė District Court found a long-term hunter guilty and awarded him 4.5 thousand. fined 4.8 thousand euros, sentenced to pay damages to nature. confiscated the rifle and banned hunting for two years. In April this year, the Kaunas Regional Court rejected the appeal.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, to date there has been no jurisprudence of the Court of Cassation on this issue.
“The courts of all instances have recognized that even the killing (destruction) of a single lynx causes significant damage to the conservation status of this protected species of wild animal. Although the convict explained that he had shot the lynx through negligence, the courts, after evaluating all the circumstances of the case, recognized that the animal had been shot intentionally, “said prosecutor Vytautas Nacikūnas, who supported the state accusation in court.
According to the case data, a long-term hunter shot down a lynx in LK in early November 2017. These animals are protected in Lithuania. The convict denied intentionally shooting the animal, but did not report the incident to any authority. The coat of a lynx was found during a search on another hunter.
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