Members of the Environmental Crimes Department of the Argentine Federal Police rescued a capuchin monkey and several specimens of birds wild animals from a home in the town of Libertad, Buenos Aires province of Merlo, according to that force.
The judicial measure had its origin in a complaint received in the department, which gave an account of the mistreatment that this primate received from those who they had him as a petbefore which the Federal Criminal and Correctional Court No. 3 of San Martín in charge of Alicia Vence, requested this police unit to carry out investigations to determine the veracity of the complaint.
Having verified the facts denounced, the Court ordered the immediate search of the house in question, located near Arroyo Las Víboras, which was carried out this Thursday and resulted in the discovery of a capuchin monkey or Caí (Sapajus Cay). tied with a rope around the neck to a jugwhich limited their mobility to a few meters.
The specimen of this native species from northern Argentina and neighboring countries was in a deplorable state of health, according to veterinary personnel from the same Police.
In addition, specimens of other wild species such as goldfinches, corbatitas and olivaceaswho were caged in the patio of the house in poor health, formulating legal proceedings for violation of Law 22,421 for the Protection of Wildlife and 14,346 against animal abuse.
After making available to Justice the owner of the address and responsible for animal abuse; the rescued species were transferred to the refuge of the Civil Association Ecological Complex of America of the Buenos Aires town of America, for their recovery and reinsertion in their respective habitats.
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“The work carried out by the Federal Force is one of the many carried out in the fight against national and international animal trafficking, which in most cases are linked to the mistreatment of these species,” they said in a statement. .
