In Quindío the environmental authority will apply economic and criminal sanctions to protect the national tree of Colombia
Today in Quindío, in the middle of the celebration of the Palm Sunday, there will be a wide deployment of wax palm protection, national tree from Colombiawith technical personnel of the environmental authority that will also be attentive to the traffic of wildlife by the roads of the department.
Despite the sanctions that exist due to the violation of the Quindío wax palm for example, In environmental, at this time of year protected species like this and animals live their own viacrucis. Hence the protection actions that have been carried out from the Regional Autonomous Corporation of Quindío, CRQ, with the Environmental Police.
“Ramos Sunday We will be very strong in the 12 municipalities of the department, in all the churches educating about the importance of caring for the wax palmbut also making seizures and applying the law, ”said Juan Esteban Cortés Orozco, director of the CRQ.
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He added: “In preventive matters for several days we have been working with the Diocese of Armenia, pointing out the importance of this palm since its affectation also affects the reproduction of the ecosystem and the Loro Orejiamarillo hostel”
Likewise, in the middle of the high number of visitors to Quindío for the tourist season, Animal trafficking increases such as guatines, lazy, iguanas, dogs, turtles, exotic birds and other species. Given this reality, control, operational and registration activities have been implemented at strategic points.
“We have a presence with control stalls at key points of the department as the sector known as the beach in Salento, in the Transport Terminal, at El Eden airport in Armenia and in areas of high influx of travelers. With the police we review vehicles And we do pedagogy, ”said Cortés Orozco.
In Colombia There are two types of sanctions for those who appropriate natural resources, in this case of wild palms: Administrative: with fines for up to 5,000 minimum legal monthly wages in force to whom environmental norms infringe, extract, mobilize or market wild palms.
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And according to the Criminal Code, article 328 Prison of 60 to 135 months and a fine 134 to 43,750 monthly legal minimum wages in force, for the illicit use of renewable natural resources.
On the outskirts of the Catholic temples today there will be groups formed by CRQ personnel and the environmental police carrying out Pedagogy, making seizures and starting sanctioning processes those who discover with branches or co -collides of wax palm, considered the highest species in the world and which can live more than 100 years.
Source: Integrated information system
