Пернатые хищники и их охрана (Dec 2022)
Events
Abstract
Events 2nd Ornithological Congress of the Americas will be held in Gramado, Brazil in August 1-4, 2023. Twelfth Australasian Ornithological Conference (AOC) will be held in Brisbane (Queensland, Australia) in November 28–30 2023. Contraband of Falcons At Boryspil airport on February 4, 2022, officers of the State Border Service, customs officials, Ukrainian security service and aviation security service found four falcons in the luggage of a Ukrainian who was traveling to Doha, Qatar. In the course of the law enforcement intelligence operation on September 9, 2022, the State Environmental Protection Committee of Uzbekistan together with the officials of the Department of Internal Affairs prevented the smuggling of seven Saker Falcons (Falco cherrug). The Saker Falcon (Falco cherrug) of the “Altai” phenotype, marked with ring D-745 of the Russian Raptor Research and Conservation Network (RRRCN), and released into the wild in the south of Chelyabinsk region (Russia) within the Saker Falcon Restoration Project in the South Urals, implemented by Holzan Nursery, was captured on 10 October 2022 by poachers in Pakistan. On October 20, 2022, at the Besagash border station (Zhambyl Region, Kazakhstan), a group of unknown persons were detained. They were illegally trying to take nine Saker Falcons from the Republic of Kazakhstan to the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic (Falco cherrug). Police officers of Verkhneuralsky district of Chelyabinsk region stopped illegal activities of 48-year-old Dmitry Yasko on October 22, 2022 who, according to the police, was engaged in catching of Peregrin Falcons (Falco peregrinus) and Saker Falcons (Falco cherrug). Rosprirodnadzor (Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources) inspectors and officers of the Border Department of the Federal Security Service in Altai Krai stopped the illegal export of peregrine falcons (Falco peregrinus) to an Arab country on December 22, 2022. The Border Guard Service of the Federal Security Service of Russia stopped an attempt to smuggle Gyrfalcons (Falco rusticolus) to a country in the Middle East on December 28, 2022.
