Odemira: GNR seized 32 endangered species turtles.


Military Territorial Detachment of the GNR Odemira seized during the day Wednesday, a farm located in that county the Alentejo coast, 32 turtles, that the farmer held illegally.

Turtles commonly known as "African Spurred Tortoise", are a protected and endangered source endangered under the Convention on International Trade Species of Fauna and Wild Flora (CIEDs).

The detection in animals ran a hard military policing action inside the farm, with its owner been identified and applied an auto contravention, and has been named "trustee" of turtles.

Teixeira Correia

(journalist)


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