Emotional contact with wildlife spoils the job

While many countries impose fines of more than 10,000 dollars for feeding wildlife animals, the kind people of our land show compassion by feeding wildlife during the cold season; Unaware that, according to environmental experts, emotional contact with wildlife spoils the work.

If you search the phrase “Don’t feed the wildlife” or “Don’t feed the wildlife” on the Internet, you will get access to interesting information in this field, and in response to the question, why shouldn’t this be done? Experts clearly answer: Wildlife animals are no different from dead animals when they are fed by hand. In fact, you are not helping them by feeding them, but you are condemning them to death.

Not much time has passed since the Qaemshahr leopard incident; Around 5:30 in the morning on the 5th of May, the presence of a leopard collar was observed on top of Saderat Bank building on Sari street in Qaimshahr city. It was stated in the letter of Mazandaran Environment that after a short time, the gatherings of people in the place where the leopard was present increased and with the increase in the number of people, this animal became stressed and anxious, and at around 7:00 am, it ran away from Saderat Bank building into the street and unfortunately People and cars also moved with it. While fleeing, the leopard wounded one of the police personnel in the shoulder area and continued “…

This was the whole story and in the end numerous comments and criticisms from late arrival to not having anesthesia darts, lack of experienced doctor and finally as always the arrow of all these lacks and inconsistencies and deficiencies was aimed at the people and the gathering and crowding of the people took the brunt of the criticisms. Of course, this issue cannot be ignored and it was addressed in its place. Here

At that time, the head of the Wildlife Monitoring Department of the General Department of Environmental Protection, Gilan described the incident of the Qaimshahr leopard as a rare incident and explained: Unfortunately, due to many reasons such as destruction of wildlife habitats, deforestation, livestock grazing, industrial development, crossing of transportation roads and Railways, lack of waste management, and many other animals were forced to live on the outskirts of cities and even in the heart of residential areas to meet food needs.
Hossein Alinejad continued: The lack of waste management and leaving food residues of tourists on the side of roads and tourist areas out of pity for animals or on the pretext that they are attracted to nature, unfortunately, species such as bears, raccoons, jackals, wolves, boars and It has attracted wild animals to the garbage and drawn them to the cities. Here

Do not hand feed wildlife

The Director General of the Office of Wildlife Protection and Management of the Environmental Protection Organization said: Usually, wildlife come close to residential areas to find food on snowy and icy days. In these days, we must take care of them and avoid giving them food by hand as much as possible.

Gholamreza Abdali stated: When wildlife come down from their habitat and towards residential areas on snowy days, some people throw a lot of food on their path out of compassion; This is not the right thing to do because the wildlife gets used to it and it thinks that there is always food in this area, so when the weather is suitable, it comes around the residential areas again out of habit and to get food, which is not for their safety at all. Not good.
He added: on snowy and frosty days, due to lack of food, wildlife comes more towards residential areas; Therefore, we ask people not to harm them and not to give them hand-meals as much as possible. If they want to help, it should be in coordination with the environment and environmentalists. They guide what to do; In fact, in these days, people should have the air of wildlife to pass the snowy and frosty days.
Abdali added: The general environment departments in all provinces were equipped for snowy days, and they also identify the places where wildlife may come down from their habitats during snow and ice, and if necessary, manual fodder is placed in those paths. Sometimes seeds are sprinkled for birds in areas where snow covers the whole ground.

Villagers on the edge of the forests! Do not hunt and introduce illegal hunters

The head of the Wildlife Monitoring Department of the General Department of Environmental Protection of Gilan emphasized: We do not recommend feeding wildlife because with the onset of cold weather, wildlife begin vertical migrations and come down from the heights. We ask the villagers on the edge of the forests not to hunt and to introduce illegal hunters.
In an interview with IRNA reporter, Hossein Alinejad added: Wildlife has learned how to change its stations in the cold, so vertical migrations begin to lower altitudes where there is no snow and take shelter in valleys.
Stating that the situation of snow and ice is not critical yet, he added: In general, no food delivery by people in the city and natural habitats is recommended because they do not have enough expertise. Feeding has a specific place and place that should be done by experts and environmentalists at their discretion.
Alinejad said: The province’s natural habitats have enough food to provide wildlife; We haven’t reached a critical situation yet. If the situation becomes critical, food delivery in the habitats will be followed by more than 200 rangers and environmental protection forces.

He stated: Therefore, it is better for people to coordinate with the environmentalists and environmental departments of the provincial cities before doing anything, so that both wildlife and people are not harmed.
Alinejad asked the people to keep the environment calm in the first place when dealing with environmental incidents or encountering wild animals and avoid any stress, feeding and running away of the animal and immediately call the fire department or the night number. Call the General Department of Environmental Protection, Gilan, 33824626, with the prefix 013.
The head of the Gilan Wildlife Monitoring Department emphasized: The number 1540 is for handling complaints, and it may take time, but in case of urgency and the need for immediate treatment, call the number of the General Department of Environmental Protection.
Gilan is one of the smallest provinces of Iran, this small region is the third most densely populated province after Tehran and Alborz. 34% of Gilan is Jalga and the rest is foothills or mountains. Most of the population lives in Jalga.

Gilan has national and global potentials. 60 species of mammals such as leopard, shoka (miniature deer), brown bear and jaw are part of the biodiversity of the province. Birds are one of the most important indicators of wildlife in the world. There are 533 species of birds in Iran. 60% of the country’s birds can be seen in this region, and there are 20 wetland stations and three internationally important wetlands, Anzali, Bujaq and Amirkalaye National Park.

On snowy days, various species, including deer, goats, rams, sheep, and even carnivores such as foxes, wolves, and jackals, usually approach residential areas; Wildness is the natural nature of wildlife, so take care of yourself and them.