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Post by ozgringo on Dec 21, 2016 17:58:37 GMT -5
More than 5,000 traffickers arrested this year in Colombia "Over the past two years, more than 48,776 police operations have exposed heart-rending cases of trafficking in the Caribbean region and elsewhere in the country. These operations are carried out by the Inter-Institutional Environmental Control Committee — a joint task force created by the National Police, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development and regional environmental authorities." "So far in 2016, Magdalena, Sucre, Bolívar, Cesar and Córdoba are the departments with the most illegal hunting in the country with 11,197 captured wild animals." "The most trafficked species are Colombian slider turtles (Trachemys callirostris), iguanas (Iguana iguana), American caiman (Caiman crocodilus fucusc), canaries (Serinus canaria) and the red-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis carbonaria), among other animals taken from wetlands and dry forests of the region. The wildlife trafficking in these five departments is equivalent to half of the total number of animals sold illegally in the country, which to date total 20,415 specimens of fauna." From news.mongabay.com/2016/12/wildlife-for-sale-more-than-5000-traffickers-arrested-this-year-in-colombia/
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Post by sedelen on Dec 22, 2016 19:45:24 GMT -5
It's no wonder I haven't seen much wildlife here other than birds, and I bet there's a lot of birds, such as parrots and the like that there would be a market for.
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