A farmer has been referred to prosecutors for allegedly shooting and killing a protected red-crowned crane with an air gun on the northernmost main island of Hokkaido, investigative sources said Monday.The man in his 60s was referred to prosecutors by police on Friday on suspicion of violating the law on conservation of an endangered species by shooting the bird on his farmland in the town of Ikeda on June 5, the sources said.The man told Kyodo News he saw cranes that were about to enter his field and fired five shots to scare them away, but found one crane lying on the ground and reported …READ FULL ARTICLE
