Lithuania is turning the border with Belarus into a wild animal cemetery
Belarus accused Lithuania of worsening the environmental situation on the border. There, Lithuanian border guards installed a “Bruno spiral”, consisting of several strands of barbed wire, to prevent the invasion of illegal migrants from the territory of Belarus.
This was reported by the Belarus-1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The President of the Lithuanian Hunters' Union, Raimondas Ribachiauskas, has already stated that the border will soon turn into a cemetery for wild animals, especially large ungulates, the main migration of which begins in August.
Nikolai Svidinsky, head of the department of the Ministry of Natural Resources of Belarus, recalls that among the objectives of the Convention on the Conservation of Biological Diversity is the free movement of species from one territory to another, regardless of state borders.
“What is currently being created on the Lithuanian side will be a significant obstacle to the movement of biological species, including rare and endangered ones. Contacts are reduced and the population will decline sharply. August-September the rut begins for large ungulates. They heard the call of their partner and rushed, and then there was this spiral. The animal gets caught in this net, and the more you move, the more injuries, even death,” said Svidinsky.
Belarus reserves the right to contact the Secretariat of the Convention with a complaint about the actions of Lithuania.
The number of migrants detained on the border of Lithuania and Belarus this year has exceeded two thousand people. This is due to the fact that Minsk has stopped stopping their movement, as it did before. The Belarusian authorities do not hide that this is due to the Lithuanian authorities’ support for the opposition.
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