Culling 'With Permission From Authorized Bodies': Shufrych Talks About His Hunting of Wild Animals in Africa
The lawmaker was interested only in mature males that posed a danger.
People's Deputy from the Opposition Platform — For Life party Nestor Shufrych confirmed that he hunted wild animals in Africa, but only "with the permission of the authorized bodies of the national government".
About this on Monday, December 30, reported the lawmaker's press service.
There, they confirmed that Shufrych did indeed go on a hunting trip to Africa — in July 2013.
"The hunt described in the media was carried out with the permission of the bodies authorized to do so by the national government; the target of the culling was a male of non-reproductive age, of aggressive temperament, which was subject to culling. Nestor Shufrych stressed that his hunting interest was exclusively in mature males that had lost the ability to produce offspring and posed a danger both to younger males and to local residents in the area. After the described events, Nestor Shufrych, due to known circumstances, refrained from such expeditions on the African continent", — the parliamentarian's press service said.
The day before, the media distributed photos showing the lawmaker posing with killed representatives of African fauna. The images were previously published on the website of the company Thormählen & Cochran Safaris, which, judging by the description on its website, provides hunting services in Africa — in Namibia, Zimbabwe, Cameroon and South Africa.
The world's oldest rhinoceros died in Tanzania, and its species is under threat
In particular, the website reported that Nestor Shufrych hunted an oryx in the Kalahari Desert in South Africa, a brown hyena — also in South Africa, a wildebeest and a black rhinoceros. Moreover, according to the organization, Shufrych became the first and only hunter to succeed in killing representatives of 3 subspecies of black rhinoceros: bicornis minor, bicornis bicornis and bicornis michaeli. The 4th subspecies, bicornis longipes, has been considered extinct since 2011.
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