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Wild Yuri, 17.04.2010 16:46
I would like to set a new topic for discussion and possibly discussion. I'm pretty sure that 90% of the forum participants are poachers (the author is one of them), that is, they catch insects illegally, without obtaining the appropriate permits. The Committee of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation says: it is necessary to take permits. You can't fish without them!
I once managed to get such a permit from the Communist Party of Primorsky Krai. They studied the issue for a long time and came to the conclusion that the law "On the Animal World" does not prohibit the capture of insects for private purposes. I was assigned an expert examination of the list of insects to be caught, at the local biological and soil institute. For the expertise... they took the money, although the BPI did not receive anything from it! He allegedly has to do examinations for the CRC on a voluntary basis. The BPI expert said that it doesn't matter: the CPR, like any organization, must pay for services, or at least not take money from clients for other people's work! Shame... In the BPI there is no money for writing paper, but here!..
Permission was given to me immediately after the expert examination (the" resolution " of the expert that there are no protected species in the Russian Federation and the region) and payment.
The QPR even praised me: "What a conscientious person you are! Other entomologists do not take permits and catch illegally! " But the funny thing is, they said that BPI scientists also catch illegally! The BPI must get permission from them to catch insects! And that they will deal with BPI!
Fall out of your chair: BPI gives them free examinations, they earn money from them, and they are ready to "kill" their breadwinners. And who, I wonder, will make an expert examination for obtaining a permit for trapping by BPI employees: themselves, or what? ZIN?
Laughter and sin...
Probably, de jure officials are right: all individuals and organizations, including scientific ones, according to the law "On the Animal World" (or some other) must have permits to capture (bureaucratically speaking: removal from nature) insects and other invertebrates. They don't have... so "they can come to them"!
Further, I was told that permission is not everything. That the collection should be registered as a collection. This is a separate procedure (and probably an expert examination), the collections will be assigned a registration number, and every year I will have to provide a report on the collection turnover (what went away and arrived) to some of their divisions, with all the papers that the arrived insects were caught by the sender legally (new expert examination?).
I was completely confused by their rules and regulations and left the CPR-a barely alive. Nevertheless, I got a permit, legally caught it, and the next year I came back. They were already scowling at me.
Why do you need so many insects in your collection? I began to explain that butterfly collectors differ from others in the large number of objects they collect, that they put series, study variability, etc., to which I was told that this is wrong, and in our ecological era it is permissible to take insects individually, but it is better just to photograph them.
And where is the registration document for your last collection, for the register of animal collections? "you asked me sternly?" Did you register the collection? "Not yet," I whispered, backing away from the door, but the opportunity to make money on a new examination turned out to be more important to them than the regulations, I was told that they would give permission, but at the very minimum, like "each creature has a pair".
"And be sure to register the fees!"
I paid for the examination again, ran for an expert at the BPI, ran out of steam, got high blood pressure and insomnia...
I didn't go to QPR in my third year. Thinking about different expeditions out of the region, I decided to get permission for trapping in their regional CRS in writing. I wrote to Yakutia (I wanted to climb the Chersky Ridge in June), Buryatia (move there in July) and Kabardino-Balkaria (complete the" tour " with the August training camps of the Caucasian Alpika).
From Yakutia, I was told: no, you can only catch scientific organizations, when they conclude contracts with a local university (Yakutia and Primorye then, it turns out, are different countries?!), in Buryatia: yes, we will give permission, and free of charge (!), but provide a list of insects and the number, in Kabardino-Balkaria again: no, and without explanation.
I still went to Yakutia, partisanized, pretended to be a hitchhiker, etc., in Buryatia I fished legally with a permit, but I never got to Kabardino-Balkaria.
I will not continue, but will ask the forum participants the following:
1. Did anyone else manage to get permits for catching insects and what did the procedure look like?
2. Did you then register your collection and collection, and how did this happen?
3. What does it look like to get permits in other countries, if someone has experience? (In the United States, I've heard that you can fish on federal lands without a permit, but on private ones, you can negotiate with the owner).
4. Are there any "mental torments" for those who catch without permits, violating the laws of the country?
I have them sometimes. But I think my crime is insignificant and I still sleep more calmly than when I went to the offices of officials...
This post was edited by Wild Yuri - 04/23/2010 20: 16
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