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A holder will have instructed proceedings on suspicion of crime on the protection of flora, fauna and pets

Possession of this species is prohibited

Both the Spanish Catalogue of Endangered Species and Regional records to thighed tortoise as a protected species

The Civil Guard of Murcia has developed an investigation that has led to the intervention in a country house in the municipality of Lorca, twenty living specimens of the turtle species dwells.

A holder has been investigated him on suspicion of crime on the protection of flora, fauna and pets, as the tenure of this species is prohibited.

Among the services developed to prevent and prosecute violations and environmental crimes related to the illegal possession of protected wildlife species, the Meritorious opened the investigation into the alleged existence of a considerable number of copies of tortoise Testudo Graeca on a farm Lorca.

After locating the plot lorquina council of La Hoya, agents have carried out the corresponding inspection at the farm and have found within twenty specimens of this species in captivity.

The Civil Guard have seized twenty copies, seven of them lived and with a size ranging between 20 and 25 centimeters in length, which have been delivered at the Center for Wildlife Recovery 'El Valle' dependent the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia (CARM), and made available to the competent judicial authority.

You may try to native specimens of Murcia illegally extracted natural environment or that its origin is in the irregular importation of another country in which the turtle dwells is equally original.

The owner of the farm, who told investigators he had blackberries turtles as a pet, you have instructed proceedings on suspicion of crime on the protection of flora, fauna and pets.

Mulberry turtle is currently protected by international law on wildlife and expressly included in the catalog, both national and regional, Endangered Species, which includes in the category of vulnerable

The Civil Guard has investigated a Spanish man, 50 year-old resident of Lorca to which you have been instructed proceedings on suspicion of crime on the protection of flora, fauna and pets, and together with the copies seized and the proceedings initiated has been brought to justice.

Offenses relating to the protection of flora, fauna and pets

Penal Code: Article 334.

1. Shall be punished with imprisonment of six months to two years or a fine eight to twenty four months and, in any case, disqualification from profession or trade and disqualification for the exercise of the right to hunt or fish for between two to four years who, in violation of the laws or other general provisions:

a) hunt, fish, acquire, possess or destroy protected species of wildlife;

b) traffics in them, their parts or derivatives thereof;

or,

c) engaging in activities that prevent or hinder their reproduction or migration.

The same penalty shall be imposed on anyone who, in violation of the laws or other general provisions, destroy or seriously alter their habitat.

2. The penalty shall be imposed in the upper half if it is listed species or subspecies endangered.

3. If the acts were committed gross negligence, imprisonment of three months to one year or a fine of four to eight months and, in any case, disqualification from office and disqualification profession or special for the exercise will be imposed right to hunt or fish for time of three months to two years.

Source: Ministerio del Interior