The Yakovlevsky District Court of the Primorsky Territory found a local resident guilty of disseminating deliberately false information about the tiger’s access to people. This is reported by TASS with reference to the Amur Tiger Center, which deals with the protection of the Red Book predator in the Far East.
“At the beginning of 2023, the police received a message from a resident of the village of Yakovlevka that there might be a tiger on Sovkhoznaya Street. The woman showed a photograph allegedly taken by an eyewitness. The police officers did not find either the tiger or its traces during the inspection and found that a 30-year-old resident of the village spread deliberately false information about the tiger using a photo from the Internet, ”the press service reports.
According to the published court decision, the man was found guilty of an administrative offense under Part 9 of Art. 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (“Dissemination in the media and on the Internet of knowingly unreliable socially significant information that poses a threat to public order”). He was sentenced to a fine of 50 thousand rubles with the confiscation of his mobile phone.
In the Far East, a system has been created to resolve conflicts between large predators and humans, under which a problematic tiger that can threaten people is caught, checked for its condition and either released to a safe place or kept in captivity.
This past winter, there were especially many reports of tigers entering communities, causing conflict resolution team members to frequently go to the reporting sites to check. Also, such messages cause social tension in settlements.
Source: Rosbalt
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