PROTEST CAMPAIGN: No to advertisement of the murder of animals in the national parks of Belarus

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On 30 July, 2007, at 19.35,  the video film OF ATN
"Belovezhskoye Safari" was shown on the first channel of Belorusian
government television. This video film is the aspect of Aleksandr
Zimovsky's project the "National Parks of Belarus".

For the almost the whole half-hour, viewers (among which
there were children!) became acquainted with the industry of
slaughtering wild animals for entertainment.

And the most terrible, is that all this occurred not in some series
about hunting, but in the world famous national park
"Belovezhskaya Forest/Białowieża Forest":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bia%C5%82owie%C5%BCa_Forest. The creators of the film (author of scenario Denis
Kur'yan) said in detail, and without being troubled, how to 
kill deer and about wild Kabanov foreign "money-bags" - hunters in the state
nature-conservation establishment "Belovezhskaya Forest". Lovers
of "sharp" sensations obtained the excellent possibility to take
pleasure in the scene of attacking injured animals with hunting dogs. But
the most secret place in the national park "Belovezhskaya Forest", 
the subject of the film, was not a forbidden zone with wild nature, but instead,
the depository of hunting weapon for the local and foreign "hunters".

In this way, Belarus proved to be "more advanced than the whole of 
Europe". That which western civilization refused many
decades ago (the murder of wild animals in its
national parks), in Belarus is advertised without constraint 
and propagandized to the entire country. Including frank scenes of
torture and brutal treatment of wild animals, that teach
children violence and murder of our smaller brothers. In Europe, the
demonstration of such scenes would immediately create a national
scandal and judicial actions against those who allowed
abuse of animals, while in Belarus on the main state
television channel, this is elevated into the rank of state policy. We,
citizens of Belarus, must stop in the national MEDIA
the advertisement of the murder of animals in the separately guarded
natural territories. National MEDIA are not place for the
advertisement of hunting for trophies, which is in the
contemporary world itself amoral and an ecologically harmful
occupation. All the more, when this hunting occurs with the
disturbance of the principles of ethics, morals and ideology in the
separately guarded natural territories. The workers of the
nature-conservation establishment, those who must first of all defend
the moral, ecological and juridical principles of the protection of
wild animals, in reality are executors and propagandists of the
vicious ideology of commercial hunting.

We are required to end the demonstration of this and other similar
films, which popularize the vicious ideology of potrebitel'stva in the
state nature-conservation establishments!

Instead of contributing to ecological education, to the solution of
the problems of the ecologically inadmissible and scientifically
unjustified conducting of economic activity in the forbidden natural
territories, the government television advertises commercial huntings
in the national park. Disgrace!

We request all conscious citizens of Belarus and international friends
to support our initiative and to direct your letters of protest toward
the Belorussian television:

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Agency of television news (ATN), Belteleradiokompaniya, 
ul. Makayenka, 9
MINSK 
220807, Republic of Belarus

Tel: 375 263 82 58 
Fax: 375 263 15 81.
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e-mail: *atn@tvr.by*

This is necessary in order to end the advertisement of the murder of
animals in the guarded natural territories. An example text of a letter (in the
Russian and the Belorussian languages), which you
can edit at your discretion, can be copied from here
(http://bp21.org.by/ru/docs/antihunt.doc).

_Inez Zenina, biologist, g.Turov, the Gomel region_

_Georgiy kozul'ko, k.b.n., the coordinator of project "BP-2Y century", The belovezhskaya forest_

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