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Armenia asks hunters to kill off wolf threat

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the government today approved a procedure for regulating the numbers of these wild animals and the measures to do it," the government statement said.

Hunters who kill a wolf will be paid a reward of around 275 dollars (200 euros), a government statement said -- a significant sum in impoverished regions of the ex-Soviet republic.

The authorities said the drive was necessary because the number of wolves has been growing and they have increasingly been raiding populated areas and killing farm animals.

The Armenian environmental protection ministry estimates that there are several hundred wolves in the country and they are not on the list of endangered species.

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