Recently, the government of Ukraine has introduced new fines for killing elks entered in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species last year. Henceforth poachers will have to pay 130,000 grivnas for one killed ruminant. Moreover, the government ordinance on an increase in the fines covers not only elks, but also other animals entered in the Red List.
The fines imposed in 2017 were more modest: between 20,000 and 80,000 grn for killing an elk and bison, and up to 40,000 grn for poaching a wild horse.
Animal-rights activists claim that the elk population numbers no more than 6,000 in Ukrainian forests today, compared with about 15,000 in the early 1990s.
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