Weisman proposed allowing the shooting of dangerous bears in populated areas.

Nizhny Novgorod. October 4. NewsRoom24.ru - Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the magazine "Hunting and Hunting Economy" Aleksei Vaisman believes that Russia should permit the forced shooting of dangerous bears. He stated this to RIA Novosti, noting that current regulations do not allow for the rapid elimination of such predators. According to Vaisman, shooting dangerous animals should be permitted within populated areas, apiaries, dachas, and garden plots, on lands of industrial and agricultural enterprises, as well as indoors. Each such case, the expert believes, should be documented with a hunting act, and the shooter should not be held responsible. Currently, he explained, hunting legislation does not provide for the urgent elimination of a bear that is man-eating or poses a threat — for example, if it wanders into a settlement. "Under current legislation, shooting a bear that has entered a populated area is considered illegal hunting of a game animal, that is, poaching — a criminal ...