{"id":64857,"date":"2011-02-10T15:03:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T11:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=64857"},"modified":"2011-02-10T15:04:32","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T11:04:32","slug":"does-armenias-nature-protection-ministry-protect-wildlife-or-kill-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/02\/10\/does-armenias-nature-protection-ministry-protect-wildlife-or-kill-it.html","title":{"rendered":"Does Armenia&#8217;s Nature Protection Ministry Protect Wildlife&#8230; or Kill It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the RA government meeting today, the administration discussed the sharp rise in the number of wolves over the past few years in Armenia. The executive body approved a resolution and measures to manage the situation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the government decision, for each wolf that is caught and killed, the state will award 100,000 drams (about $274 US). Armenia&#8217;s Ministry of Nature Protection has been allocated 10 million drams (about $27,397 US) to distribute to citizens who catch and kill the wolves.<\/p>\n<p>According to an observation by RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, a similar decision was approved in the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, which prevented the sharp increase of wolves in the de-facto republic, albeit for a short period of time.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia&#8217;s government approved a decision today to award 100,000 drams to each citizen who catches and kills wolves in the republic.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[21611,21610,11292],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}