The National Parks Administration (APN) will appear as a plaintiff in the case that investigates the hunting of a jaguar in the province of Formosa, where a man killed a 150-kilo specimen that is part of an endangered species in Argentina considered a natural monument, reported the Ministry Environment and Sustainable Development.
The fact, labeled as “Preliminary investigation s/inf. Law 22,421 jaguar hunting in the province of Formosa by Carlos Chagra”, occurred on December 29 in the town of Clorinda, and the hunter himself uploaded a video on his social networks after the death of the jaguar.
The Red Yaguareté organization denounced the incident before the Fiscal Unit for the Investigation of Crimes against the Environment (Ufima), which led to the intervention of the Federal Court together with Environmental Crimes of the Federal Police and the Fauna de Formosa area.
“The specimen of the jaguar was in the province of Formosa and although it was not within the protected area, the National Parks Administration filed as a complainant because it is a natural monument, which is why it protects it and assumes an active role in the justice,” the ministry said in a statement.
In addition, the APN instructed that in all cases related to the natural monument, the active role of complainant be taken.
Formosa: a man residing in the city of Clorinda hunted a 150-kilo male jaguar, displayed it on his Facebook and is now being investigated by Federal Justice for killing an endangered animal, declared a Natural Monument of Argentina pic.twitter.com/hwSNNjRjcF
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In Argentina, The jaguar population, called Panthera onca, is at “extremely high risk of extinction in the wild in the immediate future” due to the destruction and degradation of environments, poaching, and the scarcity of natural prey.
While at the beginning of the 20th century it was distributed from the north to the Colorado River of the country, currently it only survives in the Yungas of Salta and Jujuy, the Misiones jungle and some sectors of the Chaco region.
“For this reason, we must denounce their persecution and the illegal trade of their products. The conservation of the jaguar is the responsibility of all“, maintained the environmental portfolio.
