In the mountains of the Tsuntinsky and Bezhtinsky districts of Dagestan, local residents and hunters found dozens of corpses of Red Book mountain goats. This was told to Novaya Gazeta by the director of the agency for journalistic investigations and copyright films «Uzden» Magomedbek Saltinsky.
< p> Saltinsky, referring to the ranger, says that about 20 mountain goats died. He clarified that now a large amount of snow has fallen in the mountains, so it is dangerous to go there.
Photo: Magomedbek Saltinsky
Photo: Magomedbek Saltinsky
Previously, birds of prey and animals did not even approach the corpses. “Animals, after all, are smarter than humans, they won’t eat anything,” said Saltinsky. For this reason, local residents considered the version of an epidemic or deliberate poisoning of animals.
< p>Now, as the huntsman has told, predators have already begun to approach dead animals.
In January, the police opened a criminal case on damage to property after unidentified people shot a herd of 53 horses in the Petropavlovsk district of the Altai Territory.