Contraband of Falcons

• Main Authors: Elvira G. Nikolenko, Igor V. Karyakin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: LLC Sibecocenter 2016
• Subjects: raptors; birds of prey; General. Including nature conservation; geographical distribution; QH1-199.5; Zoology; QL1-991; Petropavlovsk; Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky; Yelizovo; Falco rusticolus; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/af946570d0be4bb19c24149a76787155

According to the criminal proceeding in smuggling of falcons, former employees of the Line Internal Affairs Department in MIA transport, working in Domodedovo airport, were sentenced to large fines - A. Kurokhtin, D. Gorodenko and A. Kustov, as was reported in Rossiyskaya Gazeta on 19.06.2013. Inspectors of the State Committee for the wild life protection together with employees of the MIA of Khakassia on 15.09.2013 detained two individuals engaged in illegal catching of falcons. On 04.11.2013 in Buryatia perpetrator, which transported 16 falcons, was arrested. On the road Khabarovsk-Chita in the vicinity of the village Nikolayevka in Jewish Autonomous Region (Russia) police seized 21 Gyrfalcons (Falco rusticolus), which on 26.11.2013 was reported in STRBC “Dalnevostochnaya”. In the village Lesnoi of Yelizovo district in the Kamchatka Region on 29.11.2013, police arrested two men and seized eight Gyrfalcons (Falco rusticolus). One Saker Falcon (Falco cherrug) seized on 12.12.2013 in the village Staroaleyskoe of Tretyakovo district of the Altai Kray (Russia). On 24.12.2013 in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (Russia) the police, together with colleagues from the regional FSSD seized 13 Gyrfalcons (Falco rusticolus) from two residents of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. On 15.01.2014 in Kamchatka, the 51-year-old resident of the village of Nagorny in Yelizovski District, which kept 8 Gyrfalcons (Falco rusticolus) in the garage at his house land plot, was arrested. Prosecution office of Tarbagatay district of East Kazakhstan region (Kazakhstan) together with the police and the authorities for the wild life protection found 7 Saker Falcons (Falco cherrug) on 06.08.2014. At security control point “Ak-tilek - roadway" (Kazakhstan) on 29.08.2014 border guards together with employees of the State Customs Service apprehended a citizen of Kazakhstan, who tried to take from Kyrgyzstan to Kazakhstan 3 young Saker Falcons (Falco cherrug). Supervisors of safety department in Khakassky Reserve prevented the catching of Saker Falcons on the ...