Medvedev's Envoy Among 6 Killed In Chopper Crash - May Have Been Poaching Endangered Mountain Sheep

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MOSCOW - A hunting party of senior Russian officials may have illegally shot endangered mountain sheep from a helicopter before it crashed, environmental group WWF has said. WWF said it sent a letter to prosecutors asking them to investigate the group -- which included President Dmitry Medvedev's envoy to the Russian parliament who was killed along with six others -- for hunting the endangered Argali sheep.

Russian prosecutors, officials from the Altai region in southern Siberia and Gazpromavia, which operated the helicopter that crashed and is owned by Russian gas company Gazprom, declined to comment on whether the party was hunting illegally.

"Photos from the accident site, which happened in the Altai region on January 9, give the initial impression that passengers in the crashed helicopters were hunting for Argali mountain sheep," WWF said in a statement. "Moreover, hunting from an aircraft is a clear breach of the law."

The photographs from the regional press agency's website www.altapress.ru/story/38389/ showed the wreckage and the carcasses of two Argali sheep with bullet holes through their heads lying next to a rifle case.

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http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/51243

[sam sarrha]

1. Palin managed to parachute to safety,.....

[11 Bravo]

2. You beat me to it!

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. As the old saying goes.....

Это не хорошо со столовой Матери Природы.

[jdadd]

4. "This is not good from the table mother of nature....?"

At least thats what Babel Fish says ....

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. LOL !!!!!

I entered the English :
" It is not nice to mess with Mother Nature"
into the Google translator.

In any event, Gaia karma...