Posted on 08/15/2013 12:06:55 AM PDT by TexGrill
According to the Red Book of the Russian Federation, the country has seen a sharp reduction in the number of rare animals. One of the reasons for this phenomenon is rampant poaching and smuggling to China. After all, the demand on bears, tigers, musk deer, marten is high in the People's Republic of China. Dead animals are transported to China in batches, while many tiger and bear cubs are left orphaned in the wild.
Indeed, the number of crimes related to the poaching of rare and endangered species of plants and animals, as well as the transportation of derivatives across the border for further processing has increased significantly. In order to stop the rapid poaching in the spring of this year, the Russian government seriously increased penalties for breaking the rules of protection of habitats and migration routes of rare species. The law provides for fines in the amount of 2-5 thousand rubles ($100-200, previously 300-500 rubles) to individuals, 5-10 thousand ($300-400, previously 500-1,000 rubles) to officials, and 10-15 thousand rubles ($400-500, previously 5-10 thousand rubles) to legal entities. Under the new legislation, an individual can be fined up to 2-5 thousand rubles for violating hunting regulations (previously the fine was 1-2 thousand rubles). The fine makes up 20-30 thousand rubles ($1,000, previously 10-15 thousand rubles) for official personas. Violating fishing regulations may result in fines from 5,000 rubles for individuals, 20-30 thousand rubles for officials and 100-200 thousand - for legal entities. It is worth mentioning that in October last year, the Russian government allowed employees of the Federal Fisheries Agency to use firearms and tear gas during arrests.
(Excerpt) Read more at english.pravda.ru ...
Poaching rare animals (and also lumber like teak) is like the drug trade. Big profits and almost impossible to control. Arrest or kill a few of the poachers and there are 10 more ready to take their places.
The gangsters that control the harvesting and smuggling are invariably well connected and untouchable.
They were also extremely sexually promiscuous. Abortion was their main method of birth control--a nurse told me how many Russian high school girls came in pregnant and asking where they could get one. One Russian girl, it was learned, had taken on the entire football team at the school where I was teaching. Many of them, I found out, came into the States with their pimp posing as their father. They came into the classroom right from their johns in the morning, looking all blowsy.
They were even stealing plants from peoples' yards, lawn furniture, fruit from trees in yards, etc. And they all wanted pedigree dogs, no mutts for them. Then they never ever cleaned up after these dogs, so the sidewalks were a real treat for people taking a walk. Especially in summer. They would hang out on street corners in black leather jackets smoking, endlessly smoking. They left large piles of butts and other garbage (think they knew what the trash receptacles on the street were for?), leaving major thoroughfares so filthy you practically had to kick your way down the street. They would just casually step right in front of you in a grocery or other store line. I loved it when a Russkie b**ch stepped right in front of me in a line. I grabbed her by her shoulders and tossed her a few feet. Try that again, see what else happens gurrrl.
My point is, the Russkies quickly made themselves a name, and not a good one, in Brooklyn. They were quickly voted "Most Obnoxious Immigrant Group". That's why I eventually moved to Queens, where life is more civilized. Here, they simply assault the looks of the neighborhood building the most vulgarly ostentatious megahouses you can imagine, but at least they are not tossing garbage or dog stuff on the street or stealing from your yard.
So hearing that they are decimating their precious wildlife heritage to make some fast bucks without any regard for the future does not surprise me at all.
Asians are a scourge. Of course so is almost everyone else.
Blah-blah-blah. Russians are probably a single minority improving ghettos they are moving in. Just look at Brighton Beach in NYC. It was a hell hole before Russians, now it is partially a kind of an opulent neighborhood. Feral negroes and Hispanics are afraid of the Russians and on the run everywhere they are moving in. It says something.
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