Salborün Taigen and Bird Festival from Sons of Hedin on Vimeo.
This 2 day festival on the northern shore of Lake Issyk Kul in the town of Cholpon-Ata draws the regions best hunting dogs, eagle hunters, and falcon handlers in all of Kyrgyzstan. Such festivities reflect the Kyrgyz people’s nomadic past.
The final event of the festival is only opened to the most respected Berktuchi and Taigen who must hunt a live wolf. This fierce and sometimes gory battle frequently results in mortal wounds. For the sake of sportsmanship, festival officials attempted to place a bit in the wolf’s mouth to no avail, settling for a heavy chain tethering her to a lead weight.
Within rural communities, Kyrgyz have long raised Taigen and trained Eagles to protect both the lives of their livestock and family. This captured wolf was responsible for killing 68 sheep, 20 cows, and 17 horses. Such an unfathomable number of lost cattle and sheep is enough to impoverish any community.
The following section is the final segment of a 3 part series.
Wow, this is really amazing stuff. I think that it would have really upset me to watch in person. Thanks for sharing.
shame on all of you for cruelty to the helpless. This is why the world sees you as a backward and barbaric nation…no amount of manyfacturing and technology will change this opinion. Only compassion for the innocent and helpless.
these actions do not warrant ‘moderation’
embrace compassion towards the helpless, not torture of innocent animals for good purpose, and then will opinions change
why bother asking for a comment if you wish to edit it???
stop the torture embrace compassion
Cruel Bloody bastards.May the humans involved have miserable lives and painful deaths . It is the least that they deserve for being such cowardly bullies.
I hate Human Beings who get pleasure out of terrifying and torturing other species.
It is only a demon, seeing with diabolical eyes of hell, who would subject an angelic creature to such wanton and brutal torture. These are not men but demons in essence.
This is terrible… You lazy people should watch after your livestock better, instead of torturing the wolf and making fun of it.
I fail to see what is amazing about torture and abuse of animals. It’s barbaric and mindless cruelty and there must be better traditions than glorifying in man’s so-called dominance of nature. It stinks!
This is one of the most cruel thing I have ever seen!Shame on human beeing!
This is not only horrifying and inhumane but demented, and shows what a sick, depraved culture must be there to cause, watch and enjoy the pain and suffering of a helpless animal!
is very orrible
Stop all acts of barbarian cruelty against innocent animals!!!That kind of sick people who commited such horrible acts deserve death-warrant immediately without no mercy!!!!!
wann beginnen wir es diesen Menschen auch so ergehen zu lassen?
i wish thiese people whould get the same as this poor WOLF
i wish theese people go to hell!!!!!
das ist steinzeit !!!!
IT BAD TRADITION !!! ((((
please STOOOOOOOOP !!!!!
that’s sick! stop it!!!
this is terribly cruel and shouldn’t exist!!!! stop this!!!!
Disgasting!
Please stop hurting innocent animals
This is anything else but amazing. It´s just another poor case of cultural legalized cruelty to animals. One can always find reasons to justify violence against the weaker ones.
how barbaric you people are. god sees this….karma is pretty fair