What to do if you find a wounded, sick, or dead wild ungulate? Citizens frequently contact the State Inspectorate with this question.
What to do if you find a wounded, sick, or dead wild ungulate? Citizens frequently contact the State Inspectorate with this question. However, the answer is clearly set out in the Rules for Hunting Management and Hunting.
Paragraph 148 of the Rules stipulates that upon discovering wounded, injured, sick, or dead wild animals in hunting grounds and (or) on territories not included in the hunting grounds fund, including on roads, it is prohibited to illegally hunt them, butcher or move (transport) their carcasses or parts of carcasses, or use the products (meat, hide, antlers, etc.).
In case of discovering a wounded, injured, sick, or dead game animal of regulated species (including wild ungulates) or a wild animal of species included in the Red Book of the Republic of Belarus, the person who discovered such an animal must report it to the hunting grounds user, or to the duty service of the territorial internal affairs body, or to the duty service of the district emergency situations department, which are obliged to forward this report to an official of the hunting grounds user or the local executive and administrative body.
Local executive and administrative bodies and hunting ground users are obliged to provide territorial internal affairs bodies and district emergency response departments with the contact telephone numbers of officials authorised to make decisions on organising the rescue or harvesting of wounded, injured, or sick game animals.
Upon discovery of a wounded, injured, sick, or deceased game animal of regulated species, an official of the hunting ground user, and in the hunting ground reserve fund or on territories not included in the hunting ground fund – an authorised official of the local executive and administrative body, with the participation of representatives of the Ministry of Forestry organisation and the territorial body of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, as well as a specialist from the state veterinary service (if the animal is sick or deceased), shall draw up an act, after which, if necessary, they
the extraction of a wounded, injured, or sick game animal is carried out. The movement (transportation) and butchering of game animals without an act drawn up in the cases specified above are prohibited.
We draw particular attention to the fact that the illegal (including unauthorised) movement (transportation) or butchering of wild ungulate animals, including those that have died, or their parts, are criminal offences, the liability for which is established by parts 2 and 3 of Article 282-1 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.