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03/01/2012
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Agents monitoring the advance unit of IBAMA in Vitória da Conquista/BA held this week in the southwest region of the state, so far, the largest seizure of birds in the year 2012: a total of 1.558 specimens, with 1.524 canaries from the earth three cardinals, 29 birds black and two suffer.
According to information provided by the team, the birds were inside a passenger vehicle Ford Focus, with plate police Maceió / AL, packed in tiny boxes, which configured maltreatment. The environmental crime was caught by the State Traffic Police on Monday during a routine inspection of the BR-415 in the city of Firmino Alves.
Noting the presence of animals in the trunk of the vehicle, the highway police triggered the IBAMA, who performed the act, brought proceedings against the offender and seized the birds, which were sent in care of the Screening Center of Wild Animals (Cetas) in Vitória da Conquista.
The amount of canaries-the-earth (1.524) seized the astonished professionals working in Cetas since I had never gotten on that drive so many of this species come from seizures.
According to the bulletin veterinary surgeon, poultry sent to Cetas in Vitória da Conquista were dehydrated, malnourished and very stressed. After going through a screening and routine procedures, all will be released into their habitat.
IBAMA staff reported that the two individuals who were caught in the vehicle were taken to the Federal Police, which were sued in the act by animal trafficking and illegal possession of weapon (revolver 38) found with them. The fine was R$ 779 000. They were covered by the Environmental Crimes Law (No. 9.605/98, Article 72 and Article 29 § 1, section III) and Decree 6.514/2008, Article 24, § 3, section III.
The Federal Police also seized the vehicle Ford Focus offenders and individuals are trapped in the prison ward of the city. Information monitoring of IBAMA in Vitória da Conquista clarify that offenders are penalized in this kind of crime.
In 2011, they had been caught in the transport of 500 birds in the region of Teixeira de Freitas. During interrogation, the offenders did not report the origin of birds, but the IBAMA agents believe that they were caught in their own region. The main booked at the time said it had acquired the birds to drop them in his father's farm in Alagoas.
The agents, of course, did not believe this version. "We believe the route, the birds would be brought to the region of the states of Espírito Santo and Rio de Janeiro. They (offenders) were giving back to escape the local enforcement road more intense, as the Rio Bahia "said Ariosvaldo Antunes, head of the supervision of IBAMA in Vitoria da Conquista.
"Our region is considered trafficking route and location of deposits," says Ariosvaldo. He believes the items collected during the investigation, that "there are people of the area involved in the trafficking of Conquest."
The head of the advanced unit of IBAMA in Vitória da Conquista, Andréia Lula, emphasizes that "the interior of Bahia is the target of traffickers in birds, as demonstrated by the seizure." For her, "this is a serious problem to be tackled."
Carlos Garcia
IBAMA / BA
Source: IBAMA
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