Primorye resident to stand trial for shooting Amur tiger

A resident of Primorye will stand trial for shooting an Amur tiger. This was announced on March 21 by the Primorsky Krai Prosecutor's Office.

It is specified that a man born in 1982 found a male Amur tiger listed in the Red Book of the Russian Federation on the territory of the hunting grounds of the Alchan Society of hunters and fishermen. The defendant fired two shots from a long-barreled rifled Tiger carbine, butchered the animal's body, took it outside the hunting grounds and hid its parts in a forest area.

"The deputy prosecutor of the region, Stepan Tyukavkin, approved the indictment against a resident of the urban-type settlement of Luchegorsk. He is accused of committing a crime under Part 1 of Article 258.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("illegal extraction of especially valuable wild animals belonging to species listed in the Red Book of the Russian Federation")," the press service informed in the Telegram channel of the department.

The defendant faces a sentence of up to four years in prison.

"The Regional Ministry of Forestry and Protection of Wildlife Objects filed a civil lawsuit against the accused in the amount of 2.7 million rubles. The weapons of the crime, a UAZ 396259 car equipped for hunting and a Tiger carbine belonging to the accused, were seized," the prosecutor's office added.

On January 21, the corpse of an Amur tiger was found in the Yakovlevsky district of Primorsky Krai in hunting grounds near the village of Mineralnoye. Specialists of the Amur Tiger Center have established that the predator died a violent death.