Unpublished: Justice applied a million-dollar fine and prohibited a jaguar hunter from leaving the country

in a historic autumnthe Argentine justice fined him several million times and, in addition, prohibited a jaguar hunter from leaving the country.

As he realized at the time Weekendthe hunting and later slaughter of the animal that unleashed this unprecedented judicial measure took place on December 19, 2022 In the town of ClorindaFormosa, and charged public status from the videos you myThe hunter himself filmed during the hunt.

In this regard, it should be noted that a group of specialists from the red jaguar who is dedicated to locate hunters poachers I discovered two videos that were not published on social networks where, while in one they follow the footprints of the jaguar, in the other one sees a dead male jaguar and a man is heard saying: “Since seven in the morning we have been looking for him and finally, we were able to kill him here with the boys.”

Although the face of the poacher cannot be seen in the videos, the investigators could still find his whereabouts and, immediately, a protocol was activated that notified the Environmental Crimes Division of the Argentine Federal Policethen to the Environmental Fiscal Unit to finally end up in the Federal Court of Formosa, where the pertinent actions are being carried out.

Thus, while waiting for the make a judgmentthe Federal justice will conclude that the jaguar hunter must pay a bond of no less than $377,000,000, while he will not be able to leave the country or carry or use weapons until his responsibility in the act is determined and eventually receive a sentence.

“It’s great news. This is a preventative measure until there is a conviction. But this time We feel supported by justice due to the speed with which it is acting”, he stated Nicolás Lodeiro Ocampo, executive director of Red Yaguareté.

“The jaguar has no lawyerwas a sustainer of ours for many years, but now, For the first time, the National State through the National Parks Administration and the Provincial State of Formosa joined our request to be complainants and here we are now we are 45 million”, added the specialist.

For its part, this historic measure in favor of animal rights It was also welcomed by the directors of the National Parks Administration who issued a statement in which they stated that “This type of ruling is exemplary and crucial to stop the hunting of specimens of the species, which generally go unpunished and without consequences for hunters.”

“The hunting of specimens of native fauna, and particularly large and medium-sized mammals threatened with extinction, is prohibited at the national and provincial level, while the damage caused by the loss of this copy that involves various aspects and environmental and economic variables, has a estimated cost of more than $370,000,000so this fails is otherwise fair and sets a great precedent in our permanent fight against the illegal hunting of jaguars”, he concluded from the aforementioned NGO.