YEREVAN. – Armenia is not rich with hunting animals, and therefore hunting has not developed much in the country, “Lawful Hunting Club” social initiative leader Eduard Saribekyan said during a press conference on Tuesday.  

In his words, decades are needed to educate the Armenian society about hunting. He noted that any developed country, which has a strong hunting industry, has attempted to legislatively regulate this domain—including attempts to ban it—but they came to understand that nature is not benefitted by prohibiting hunting.      

On the contrary, hunting must be regulated, controlled, and its revenue must be used for the very same environment, to develop hunting game and to turn hunting into a key branch of the economy.

“Hunting tourism, economies give tremendous percentages to the country’s state budget in all well-off countries that we know of; [but] this is absent in Armenia, albeit we have a huge potential,” Eduard Saribekyan added.