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Service agents Nature Conservation (SEPRONA) Civil Guard Eagles have seized a copy of Berberea Monkey (Macaca sylvanus), commonly known as Mono de Gibraltar, where an individual had in a cage installed in the courtyard of home, in the town of Aguilas.
The monkey, whose capture helped the local police in the town and had to be previously anesthetized by the veterinary services, has been deposited in a humane society, available to the Inspectorate of Customs and Excise of Murcia, authority which is submitted to the actions taken by administrative offense of smuggling, since the holder did not demonstrate to the officers legal importation and possession of the animal.
The action took place after the animal's owners alerted to SEPRONA that the primate, an adult male from Morocco, had escaped from the cage he was initially captured, and after that roamed the property surrounding his home, which, however, was fenced around its perimeter.
The species involved is included in one of the appendices of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (CITES), which aims to ban international trade in endangered species and regulate any others that might become endangered.
On the other hand, the exchange between apes, according to the legislation on animal health, is limited to bodies, institutes or centers and shall be accompanied also by a veterinary certificate that guarantees their good sanitary conditions for both Broken The primate keeper seized.
European legislation provides that the sole purpose of holding such animals should be public education, conservation of species or scientific research.
The private ownership of primates can pose problems of public health and safety, given the many times this type of aggressive animals and the possibility of human transmission of serious diseases such as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) virus Ebola.
For this reason, the facts are made known, in addition to the customs authority cited by the Directorate General of Livestock Ministry of Agriculture and Water and the city of Murcia, responsible for animal health and possession of potentially dangerous animals, respectively .
The Department of Nature Protection and Civil Guard seized a monkey in Gibraltar in August last year.
In that case the discovery of primate occurred after a citizen who occasionally was in a great garden of Murcia, communicate to staff that the animal was to slam the cage in which the court held captive in the home of another particular.
Source: Delegación del Gobierno en Murcia
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