Dismantled International Protected Species Trafficking Network, Mostly Exotic Birds

In total there are five people arrested and 18 others investigated. The operation has focused on Cáceres, but it has also spread to Madrid, Malaga, Lugo, Ciudad Real, Almería and Badajoz.

The Guardia Civil has immobilized about thirty specimens, mostly exotic birds The Malagans, 'guapos' for the booths of the Real de la Feria: they can prohibit sneakers, flip flops or swimsuits

The Civil Guard dismantled a major international illegal animal trafficking network, five arrested, one in Lugo, and 18 investigated.

According to the authorities, the detainees and investigators integrated a criminal operation that operated at the national and international level, while many of the species identified were from Portugal. In a report on the operation, which was named 'Namib', the general direction of the Spanish Civil Guard in advance that operations took place in several Spanish provinces, including Madrid, Málaga, Lugo, Real City, Almeira and Badajoz, in addi…

This network, which operated at national and international level, since several of the species detected came from Portugal, was engaged in the illegal transport, marketing and possession of animal species.

Most of them commercialized exotic birds from the family of psitacids-guacamayos, African yac parrots with red tail, cotorras del sol and amazonas aestivas