On a permanent basis, the troops carry out activities to create environmental awareness and rise awareness on the care of ecosystems.
Within the framework of Operation Artemisa, the National Army and the Autonomous Corporation of the Valleys of Sinú and San Jorge (CVS), continue to generate operations aimed at the conservation of the fauna that inhabits the department of Córdoba.
Soldiers of the Combat Support and Services Battalion No. 11 Cacique Tirromé and officials of the environmental authority, carried out the release of wild animals in the vicinity of the Eleventh Brigade, in the city of Monteria.
On this occasion, 69 morrocoys (type of turtles), 18 birds of different specimens, four slugs and two howler monkeys were released, which had been recovered, protected and rehabilitated to be returned to their natural habitat.
Source: Press - Seventh Division of the National Army