“Give us a hospitable welcome with hay and salt!”

– ordered to huntsman the chief game manager Vasyl Burmas when the first batch of European wisents crossed the Ukrainian border. So the National nature park “Skol Beskydy” of the Maydanivskiy forestry, which is in Lviv region, launched the national program of reintroduction of the Caucasian- belovezkyi bison. Four years intervened. How did the animals do well in the Carpathian Mountains? The correspondent of “Viche” with the chief game manager of the Lviv Regional forestry and hunting Vasyl Burmas visited the National nature park “Skol Beskydy”.

Larysa MARCHUK