The police of Bolivia On Tuesday he arrested a man who offered the skull of a jaguar through social networks with the aim that another person sold the animal’s fangs outside the country, as reported by the forest and environmental protection (Pofoma).
The defendant was identified through a “computer patrol”, through which they managed to recognize their data and the place they could find them. “I asked for 2,500 Bolivians -On 315 euros- for the skull. The operation was performed in the city of El Alto, where this person was arrested and accused of wildlife traffic “, as reported by the national director of Pofoma, Carlos Chispas.
The man explained to the police that the skull was transported to El Alto by the Amazon region of goods, even if he is even unknown if there are other people involved in traffic. It is for this reason that it is expected to perform a Analysis of the defendant’s mobile phone to determine with those who have had conversations. According to the official Pofoma data, each fang It costs on the black market From Bolivia 400 dollars -350 euro- and when it reaches the countries of AsiaThe price rises to $ 4,000 each -3,500 euros-.
Jaguar protection laws
The Agro -Ambunal of the Andean country determined for the first time, last week, that the corresponding cases adopt protective measures for the jaguar and their habitat, after decades of illegal hunting, international trafficking and other threats that have meaning The death of At least 200 copies in recent years. The resolution also implies that the legislative assembly prepares a law to create an economic fund that serves to implement Jaguar protective policies.
The Court defined that the government authorities, the civic defender, the prosecutor’s office, the judicial authorities and other cases adopt “urgent” measures to “prevent attacks, threats, intimidations that may undergo” defenders of human rights in environmental matters and their families. “
The current regulations establish Two to six years in prison For people who traffic with animals or parts of these in the Bolivian territory. So far 173 wild animals have been saved this year, there have been 23 biocides, all the acts that involve the death of an animal without need. In addition, there are 30 cases open in criminal vehicles for the abuse of animals, 12 people imprisoned with preventive detention and two compliant with a sentence.
