Men who killed a tame moose were convicted in the Yeniseysky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

In the Yenisei district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, men who killed a tame moose were convicted. This was announced on March 21 by the Russian Interior Ministry in the region.

It is specified that in 2019, a motherless little moose was nailed to a tree in the village of Yuzhakovo in the Yenisei region, where it eventually became quite tame. In February 2023, the owner of the zaimka stumbled upon fresh snowmobile tracks and followed them, finding the still warm remains of an elk in the snow, which he recognized as his ward.

When police officers arrived at the scene, they found the remains of a second dead animal on a nearby hill.

The perpetrators turned out to be two men, a 61—year-old Yeniseian and a 41-year-old resident of the regional center, who were tracking animals from a paraglider and, without permits, killed two moose.

"The damage from the extraction of prongs amounted to 480 thousand rubles. The police initiated and investigated a criminal case against the intruders on the grounds of a crime under part 2 of Article 258 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Illegal hunting")," the press service informed on the Telegram channel of the department.

The Interior Ministry added that the Yeniseysky District Court sentenced the men to three years in prison, suspended with a probation period of two years. The court also ordered the defendants to fully compensate for the damage caused.

On that day, it was reported that a resident of Primorye would stand trial for shooting an Amur tiger. 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.