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Night Patrols to Stave Off Fruit Eating Bears Launched in Syunik
In an attempt to protect their fruit trees and gardens from intruding hungry brown bears, residents of the southern region of Syunik Marz will now being organizing night patrols.
It’s a new project designed by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) that has been conducted in other parts of the world where local rural agricultural communities have faced the same issue – hungry wild animals seeking to benefit from the fall harvest.
Residents of the communities of Nrnadzor, Shvanidzor and Alvank will be teaming up with employees of the Arevik National Park to patrol the fruit fields where grapes, figs and pomegranates are ripening on the vines.
The project is an extension of the WWF’s "Living in Harmony with Nature" philosophy.
Rather than shooting the bears, registered in Armenia’s Red Book of Endangered Species, the hope is to educate local villagers to seek less deadly alternatives to the problem.
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