This is Dr Madis' post, with the part about the "hunting hut", the "local hunters", the part about who owns the land.
Madis wrote:
Nimeta is no more. I usually checked his movements once a week and so i did on the 2nd october and it was all fine. I did not check on him until night of 7th (was really busy with work and also ran my first full marathon in-between). So i noticed the problem also and sent a mail to Urmas who consulted whit the manufacturer on Monday and on Tuesday afternoon he went to check out the last place what coordinates we had. So what he saw was not pretty... first lots of dead animal corpses on the field in front of an hunting hut (mostly domestic animal corpses) and he also found half eaten remains of the eagle. So Urmas brought the eagle to me for some diagnostics and i found out, using x-ray, that he had lead fragments in between the remaining tissues what means he had been shot. on necropsy i had some good news... he was pretty fat and inn a good condition, what means he was doing great. besides he had been traveling 230 km when we have direct measures from a coordinate to coordinate but they don't fly straight so the distance is definetly longer.
So for now I have written a expertise of the causes of death of the eagle to Environmental Inspectorate who should find the responsible people for the killing of the eagle and also the Veterinary- and Food Board is investigating the domestic animal corpses issue, as its illegal to take dead domestic animals into forest of fields.
But as you can think, the local hunters are playing stupid now, saying that they don't know anything about anything. who shot the eagle, who brought the corpses, why the corpses where laid in front of their hunting hut ect. As the land there is owned by government (State Forest Management Centre) and the local hunting club is renting it i hope at least the State Forest Management Centre will take some action quickly and not let those hunters pouch on governmental lands (if they don't help to find the responsible person)
I guess if y'all want to help, you can send some letters to the heads of State Forest Management Centre, Environmental Inspectorate, Environmental Board or Environmental Ministry. I guess the ministry would be the best and send it to the environmental minister would be a good to let know that international community is watching.
So to me, those are the key points.
1) lots of dead animal corpses on the field in front of an hunting hut (mostly domestic animal corpses)
2) the local hunters are playing stupid now, saying that they don't know anything about anything. who shot the eagle, who brought the corpses, why the corpses where laid in front of their hunting hut ect.
3) As the land there is owned by government (State Forest Management Centre) and the local hunting club is renting it
4) not let those hunters pouch on governmental lands (if they don't help to find the responsible person)
Then to break it down further:
*There is a hunting hut.
*Lots of dead animal corpses were found there, mostly domestic animals.
*Local hunters were at the hunting hut.
*The land the hut is on is government property, belonging to the state Forest Management Centre.
*The hunters were poaching on government land.
juta, I did not see a video that showed a building.
We may be getting things confused because here, a hut is a very small building, usually something like one room, used for camping and so on. Can you please tell me where that video is? Thanks. :peek: