Among the specimens found by troops there are reptiles, rodents and birds, all of them threatened by illegal wildlife trafficking in the Colombian Amazon region.
In the immediate vicinity of the Military Fort of Larandia in the department of Caquetá, soldiers of the National Army, with support of the Corporation for the Sustainable Development of the South of the Amazon - Corpoamazonía, carried out the liberation of a series of wild animals that had been recovered and put under the care and protection of institutions in charge of studying this type of animals in danger of extinction.
This activity was made possible thanks to the support provided by the National Army and the National Police, under the supervision of professionals specializing in the subject. The animals had had to be housed for a time in the Paso Home for Wildlife, at the Santo Domingo experimental farm of the University of the Amazon, in the municipality of Florencia, Caquetá.
Among the animals that were re s are: a rainbow boa, four Cuniculus paca, two Eudocimus ruber, one chigüiro (Capybara), quatre morrocoyos (turtles) and an owl, which returned to their habitat to be free.
This work has been carried out for four months within the Operation Artemisa, whose mission is to ensure the protection and preservation of the flora, fauna, water and biodiversity existing in the south-east of Colombia, where a large number of animals that have been threatened by illegal hands converge, who seek to profit of the trafficking of these animals that represent, for criminals, large sums of money, but a danger for the ecosystem in the Colombian Amazon.
Source: press-National Army
