The Civil Guard apprehends a lion and other naturalized African specimens protected by an international convention

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The animals were exposed to the public in a setting dedicated to Totana selling items related to hunting, whose owner did not have the required permits for tenure of animals

The SEPRONA has also seized three skulls of African cats, all protected by the International Convention CITES, and twelve heads of other native animals of Africa

Specimens have been made ​​available to the Inspectorate of Customs and Excise of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia

Agents Service Nature Protection (SEPRONA) Civil Guard of the Region of Murcia, as part of an operation dubbed "PUMBA" and developed in recent weeks along with agents from the Command SEPRONA Alicante, have proceeded to the arrest, in an establishment of the town of Totana, naturalized specimens from various African wildlife.

The performances took place in an establishment for the sale of hunting-related items, which were found exposed to the public a copy of African lion, a leopard skull, a skull of a lion and a hyena skull, all categorized as animals protected by the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), ratified by Spain in 1986.

As the keeper of the specimens did not demonstrate documented before the SEPRONA the legal importation and possession of such animals, the agents proceeded to his arrest, as provided in the current Law of Contraband.

In addition to the above specimens, in-house were also naturalized and exposed to the public, ten deer heads, a bovid, a warthog and five warthog tusks, which could not prove legal import its owner, so were also apprehended.

The actions undertaken by the Civil Guard SEPRONA have been reported to the Inspectorate of Customs and Excise of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, and specimens have been deposited apprehended in that establishment available to the agency.

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