Four Hunters Were Sentenced to Prison for Killing a Yaguareté in Formosa
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The Federal Justice imposed two years of imprisonment on four men for killing a yaguareté in the province of Formosa and disseminating images of the animal on social networks.This is the first time that a case of poaching of this species reaches an oral court in Argentina.The event occurred in July of last year.According to a Greenpeace statement, the convicts admitted their responsibility for the crime and were identified as Viterman Ponce de L…
For the first time in Argentina, a group of people faced trial for the hunting of a jaguar, an incident that occurred in July of last year in the town of Ibarreta, Formosa. The four defendants were sentenced to two years in prison in an abbreviated trial agreed upon between the Public Prosecutor's Office and Federal Court No. 1 of Formosa, presided over by Judge Pablo Morán. The case was described as a historic precedent, as it was the first tim…
In an abbreviated trial they received this sentence for the crime of hunting wild animals whose capture is prohibited. Three of them will serve effective home imprisonment. Read more
The perpetrators of the crime, who killed, butchered and ate a species declared a National Natural Monument, had declared themselves innocent.
Federal Court No. 1 of Formosa sentenced four poachers to two years in prison for killing a copy of yaguareté in the town of Estanislao del Campo, in July 2024. The ruling, by Judge Pablo Morán, was delivered in the context of an abbreviated trial and was immediately executed: the convicts were arrested upon hearing the decision. The defendants — Viterman Ponce de León (37), Walter Hugo Ponce de León (44), Claudio Hugo Cisneros (29) and Maximo C…


The Federal Court No. 1 of Formosa sentenced four men to two years in prison for the illegal hunting of a yaguareté (Panthera onca), a species declared "National Natural Monument" in 2001. Three of the accused will serve their sentence under house arrest and the remaining one received suspended sentence. According to information provided in the Public Prosecutor's Office of Formosa, the case was resolved through an abbreviated trial initiated by…
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