A Man From Badajoz Is Sentenced to One Year in Prison and €20,000 in a Fine for Hunting Four Hermit Ibis
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The hermit Ibis is a species in danger of extinction, and now it has only a viable population in southwestern Morocco (near Agadir), composed of more than 200 couples and about 70 specimens. In addition, there is another semi-captive population in Turkey (Bireçik) and the one that is being created in Vejer of the border was the third. Precisely the latter population, for which hard work is done in order to reintroduce the species in Spain, belon…
A man from Badajoz has been sentenced to one year in prison and the payment of €20,000 for causing the death of four ibis hermits, a rare endangered bird that Spain is seeking to reintroduce into its habitat.The details of the sentence, disseminated by the NGO SEO/Birdlife, reveal that the man, settled in Montemolín, shot the four young animals from his estate.The events occurred in August 2019. Five young specimens of ibis hermita abandoned the…
The defendant struck one of the most threatened birds in the world from a plot of his property with a compressed air carbine
The Criminal Court No. 2 of Badajoz has sentenced a resident of Montemolín for the death of four ibis hermits, a bird included among the most threatened species on the planet. The events occurred in August 2019 when, following a dispersal flight from the only Spanish reproductive nucleus of the species, located in Vejer de la Frontera (Cadiz), a group of five juvenile specimens arrived at the estate of the now convicted man. There they were hit …


Criminal Court No. 2 of Badajoz has handed down a conviction against a neighbor of Montemolín (Badajoz) for the commission of a crime against wildlife, following the death of four ibis hermits in August 2019.
The resolution recognizes the seriousness of illegal hunting of protected species and the need to respect the regulatory framework that ensures their conservation.
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