Ecological aspects of Turkmen hunting

Abstract

The care of the person of the nature is traced in many aspects of economic activities, and in particular, in such trade employment, as hunting. Studying of the hunting business and its history, allows to reveal certain rules and norms, which limit immense destruction of animals. Canons of correct hunting were observed in a strict order and passed from father to son. The arch of written rules of hunters about hunting - "risale", forbade shooting of animals during the period feeding of posterities, and also having small cubs. There was such concept as «Pygamber avy» (hunting of the Prophet) which allowed to kill only such quantity of extraction which the hunter could carry away with itself. There was a hunting named fair «Armansyz aw» when the hunter avoided such receptions as: reserve and unexpectedness. Bloodless ways of hunting were often used. In one case an animal long drove, leading up it to the weakened condition. In other case widely used stone traps and networks. Hunting in vicinities of "sacred" places was forbidden. Such rules developed feeling of a measure and responsibility for the nature surrounding them at hunters.