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Author: Helen Racheva Source: http://novayagazeta.ru

One of the world's biggest environmental awards, the prize of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) the name of the Duke of Edinburgh presented to the head of anti-poaching team from Primorye, Anatoly Belov. November 1 at Windsor Castle biologist-hunters from the village of Barabash Primorsky Krai received a medal for his special contribution to the conservation of the hands of the British Prince Phillip.

Two days before the ceremony, we meet with Anatoly Belov in Moscow hotel. Fly to London he did not want: talk about the award and is already going around the Primorye region, "only more enemies will become."

In ohotnazdore Belov 1922. In 1991 he was one of the founders of the Federal Reserve "Barsovy" in 2002 led a group of "Leopard" - half consisted of veterans of the Chechen anti-poaching war Special Forces, who traveled across the Far East, together with police and border guards detain violators and ringleaders of the case for murder Amur tigers and leopards. Now, Anatoly Belov, head of the department of hunting supervision Rosselkhoznadzor in the Primorsky Territory.

Belova story about his work similar to the description of military operations. On the black market Amur tiger is worth up to $ 20,000. All its parts, from the bones up mustache, buying for use in Chinese medicine. Recently, China introduced the death penalty for killing a tiger and leopard. Volumes hunting there immediately dropped. But the demand for animals from Russia - has increased.

illegally in Primorye shoot tigers, leopards, deer and boars, sawing timber, fish, gather ginseng and Dutchman's pipe, and rare species of fungi, and even frogs. Taken together, transformed a well-organized, profitable and totally illegal industry. Hunters and rybinspektorov shell and caught in illegal hunting, state officials and deputies regularly sends people to Belova prosecutor.

Work inspectors similar to the work of a good opera. They use informants among the local, decoy buyers, Chinese, organize pervasive verification taiga villages.

In 2008, the Department of Anatolia detained 294 offenders and dealt with 20 criminal cases. Only a few of them came to court. However, in the words of Belova, indicators are not important: "Our task - to save his people and withdraw as much as possible weapons. "

Anatoly Belov became the third Russian, the Duke of Edinburgh received a medal for all 40 years of premiums. At the award ceremony Prince Philip in London announced that the work of Belov - one of the factors that make the tiger population has grown from 50 to 500. Belov says about his work more modest: "The procedure we have put in their own".