SUBJECT OF A CRIMINAL OFFENCE AS PART OF ILLEGAL HUNTING

Abstract

The constant reduction of the animal component of the ecological system,
especially now, under the influence of the full-scale invasion of the Russian
Federation, creates significant threats to environmental safety as an element of
Ukraine's national security. The article is devoted to clarifying the features of
individual items of illegal hunting and providing proposals aimed at improving
the theoretical provisions and practice of their application in the qualification of
criminal offenses against the environment. The main debatable issues existing in
the theory of criminal law and gaps in legal practice regarding conceptual
differences, interconnection and correlation of the subject and object of illegal
hunting are analyzed. Attention is focused on the existence of an urgent need to
detail the subject of the criminal offense, the responsibility for which is provided
for by Art. 248 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine "Illegal hunting".
The need to develop effective mechanisms for ensuring criminal law
protection of the rational use and reproduction of fauna is summarized,
considering the damage caused because of armed aggression by the Russian
Federation.