Aleksandar Perović, head of the Department for large animals of the CZIP, says that the killed bear in Berane is just the last straw and adds that they have submitted a request for a moratorium and think that this is the only correct way.
"The situation must change urgently, because if we wait for the competent institutions to work in the way they have been working until now, we will have an even bigger problem. It is really symptomatic that not a single state institution, nor even the Hunting Association, have spoken out once on the occasion of these cases" - points out Perović in Colors of the Morning on TV Vijesti.
Nikola Marković from the Hunting Association of Montenegro said that the law of any country cannot introduce a moratorium on hunting and that he does not expect the NGO sector to say something nice about hunters.
"They are project hunters, because how can you get an international project if you don't show that everything is black in your country. Their type of rhetoric is not important to us at all, nor do we need it. We helped them as much as we could, but that our extended hand of cooperation did not bear fruit," adds Marković.
Aleksandar Perović also said that they are giving the relevant minister Aleksandar Stijović a chance to define the strategy, but the only way is a moratorium.
"We have to work on starting from zero once and for real monitoring of hunting game, for the regulations in the hunting seasons to fit in with all the conventions signed by Montenegro and for those responsible to resign"
When asked if the president of the Hunting Association of Montenegro, Nikola Marković, would resign, he said that he would not and that it was ridiculous.
"These stories may be palatable to someone who does not understand the field, but simply if you want us to deal with the facts, which are easily skipped over - pointed out Marković.
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