Environmental Protection Agency, on 23 January 2010, published the text in which it urged citizens to report instances of inhuman treatment of wild animals. This applies to illegal keeping of wild animals in captivity, illegal cross-border trade, their torture and killing, as well as the emergence of “mini zoo gardens”.

In addition to inhumane treatment of wild animals, we have also witnessed such increasingly frequent treatment of domestic animals. Despite the appeal of the Agency, there was no significant shift. We are not close to putting a stop to that sort of behavior, threaten, torture and poisoning of animals, nor has the level of human care for animals even slightly increased. Disregard of the Law on Animal Welfare Protection has led to poisoning, torture, negligent keeping and killing of animals. As far as domestic animals are concerned, many resort to the "poisoning process" not only when it comes to stray dogs, but also pets. Such cases are not even reported to the police but “hushed up” without consideration of how much hiding of the identity of a perpetrator affects the society and animals themselves. And dead animals still have a place next to the garbage cans.
Taking offspring of endangered and protected wild species, mainly during the hunt and keeping them in the so-called zoo gardens is a serious threat to these species. Therefore, we emphasize that physical and legal persons who violate provisions of the Law on Animal Welfare Protection and the Law on Nature Protection concerning the proper attitude and treatment of animals will be punished in the future. Article 51, 52 and 53 of the Law on Animal Welfare provide for penal provisions for a legal person with regard to torture, keeping and breeding, slaughter and killing, transport and experiments, the rules of behavior towards animals, as well as other issues of importance for animal welfare protection. Legal and physical persons who violate provisions of this Law shall be punished by a fine from twenty to two hundred times bigger than the lowest price of work in the Republic, whereas a physical person treating animals without care of a good owner, will be punished by a fine from ten to twenty times bigger. Art. 119 of the Law on Nature Protection provides for fines from hundred times to three hundred times bigger than the lowest price of work in the Republic for a legal person and entrepreneur if they violate allowed animal treatment measures prescribed by this Law.