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| Meeting of minds? Putin with a gyr falcon |
RUSSIAN president Vladimir Putin has this week taken time off overseeing the war in Ukraine to to visit the Kamchatka Falconry Centre.
Earlier this summer, the centre achieved its first success with captive breeding of gyr falcons.
Falconry experts from Arab countries as well as Russia have been involved with the project.
Says director of the falconry centre Shukhrat Razakov: "This is a real breakthrough in the ornithological world."
The project is said to have been devised "in accordance with a presidential decree to develop, approve and implement a plan for the establishment of falcon reintroduction and conservation centres in the Russian Federation".
The population of gyr falcons in Kamchatka and elsewhere has been declining due to large-scale poaching.
Particularly in the late 1980s, a huge number were smuggled out of Russia.
It houses a nursery for 200 pairs of falcons, aviaries for 1,000 young falcons, a tower for flying and a multifunctional ornithological centre.
There are also plans to build falcon centres in Yamal, Altai, Kolyma and Sakhalin.
The priority task of the Kamchatka centre is said to be "the creation of an aviary population of birds and their training for participation in falconry competitions".
Falconry is recognized by UNESCO as "a masterpiece of living intangible culture of mankind".
It is expected that the project will also contribute to the development of multilateral cooperation with the Middle East countries where falconry is of particular importance and prestige.
In the Arab world, the veneration of falcons in the Arab world is associated with freedom, wealth and prosperity.
Gyr falcons are popular at international auctions.
In the future, it is planned to hold auctions in the future in Russia with the participation of Arab sheikhs.
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