As the head of the Environmental Department of the Agriculture and Nature Ministry Igor Popov told during the conversation with our reporter from Novosti Pridnestrovya, appearance of this species is largely owes to the climatic trends.
«It isn't a natural habitat for jackals; first, they appeared in the south of Ukraine in the sixties of the last century, now, they've been noticed in our Slobodzeya Region, hunters even have taken one of the animals," Igor Popov told.
He emphasized that such predator haven't been seen in our corner of the world throughout all history of observations.
