Tehran, YJC. Environment Unit has given a full report of its activities in the first 3 months of the year.
Hamidreza Kheildar, Commander of the Environement Unit of
the Police Departmen, in interview with Fars news agency provided reports on
the state of his units activities in the first 3 months of the year (Iranian
calendar).
"In the first 3 months of the year 20,290 aquatic animals
have been illegally caught. The number was 9,157 for the previous year,” he
said.
Kheildar added "In the first three months 2,619 birds were
illegally hunted.”
He also maintained that a total of 251 mammals were poached
in the first quarter of the year, as compared to 136 for the previous year.
In the same period only 304 birds were meshed, Commander of
the Police Department’s Environment Unit maintained.
Kheildar further pointed out "The sale and keeping of
wildlife was one of the spheres where great difference is seen between the last
and current year, so much so that in April, May, and June this year a total of
1,124 cases of keeping or selling were reported whereas the statistics for last
year was 148.”