SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Jan. 2 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Civil Guard agents belonging to the Nature Protection Team (Seprona) are investigating a person in the municipality of Candelaria (Tenerife) for possession of several protected species without documentation or identification.
Thus, they inspected more than 30 birds and nine reptiles in a home and requested collaboration from the Neotropic Foundation to identify the animals that are affected by some protection or are included in the regulations relating to the protection of wild fauna and flora.
As a result of this inspection, a person, a resident of the municipality of Candelaria, is being investigated, accused of a crime against flora and fauna, for the acquisition or possession of wild specimens with some type of protection, without documentation, proposing him for five administrative complaints. , one to Law 42/2007, on Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, two to Law 8/1991, on the protection of animals and two to Law 8/2003 on Animal Health, the Civil Guard reports in a note.
However, a total of seven reptiles were intervened because they lacked documentation to support their legal possession and two Kramer’s parrots because they lacked authorization.
