He captured hundreds of protected butterflies: his impressive collection seized by the courts

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Revealed this Monday, April 14, by the Lons-le-Saunier Public Prosecutor's Office, a seizure of nearly 200 butterflies took place in Ardèche. In the case, a retired person took several times rare and protected insects, especially in the Jura.

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An unprecedented judicial operation between the Jura and the Ardèche transformed 183 protected and illegally captured butterflies into a contribution to scientific research. Monday, 14 April, Lons-le-Saunier Public Prosecutor's Office handed over a collection of rare species to the Regional Observatory of Invertebrates.