This year, the Caribbean Naval Force has found more than 80 dredgers for the exploitation of illegal mining and seized about 3 tons of illegal fishing on the north coast.
In the framework of Operation Artemisa that seeks to counter crimes such as illegal mining and also to intensify environmental protection, units of the Colombian Navy, of the Caribbean Naval Force during 2020 have achieved the recovery of more than 800 units of animals and have seized more than 700 cubic meters of wood in the region.
In this way, men and women of the different components of the Caribbean Naval Force, highly qualified in the protection of ecosystems, through environmental patrols in the region, have generated awareness of the protection and care of living animals among the inhabitants. Exercising maritime, riverine and land control and surveillance operations, troops work to increase man's reconciliation with nature.
Amid the pandemic, rivers and seas in the region have achieved an ecological balance that has led to an improvement in biodiversity in the Caribbean. In the most recent version of the expedition "Journey to the Heart of the Caribbean 2020", the Colombian Navy and Caracol Radio in tribute to nature, made an environmental tour by the departments of Atlántico, Bolívar and Magdalena, extolling the benefits of the Environment, in a time of pandemic, ending precisely on Environment Day.
The efforts of the Naval Institution, coordinated with the environmental institutions of the region, have contributed to reducing the impact on the different ecosystems, which can be seen through the return of animals to their natural habitat, in the midst of healthy conditions for their reproduction, in the same way, counteracting predatory fishing through the seizure of more than 2 tons of illegal fishing.
Source: press - Colombian Navy
