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Inhabitants of the municipality of Dishin the department of Cupcakerecently denounced the death of a puma, apparently at the hands of a man. The case was initially reported by the former Senate candidate for the New Liberalism and animal defender, Yerly Mozowho, through his social networks, reported that the incident had occurred last night April 30th on the Las Piñuelas farm, in the Buenavista district.
According to witnesses, a man would have shot the feline, causing its death. “As if that were not enough, he picked him up on a motorcycle with another family member and took him to the town to show it as a trophy, apparently before children present. It They skinned and distributed their skin“Mozo added on his X account. The fact was made known through some images on social networks, where the feline is seen dead and with several wounds on its body.
According to the animal defender, a citizen has already filed a complaint with the Prosecutor’s Office General so that the Special Group for the Fight against Animal Abuse, GELMA, urgently carries out the investigation and capture of the person responsible. “We request urgent action from authorities to investigate, Do justice to these insane generators of violence and please ensure that this does not happen again,” said Mozo.
For its part, the Magdalena Regional Autonomous Corporation (Corpamag), public entity in charge of managing the environment and natural resources in the region, forcefully rejected the incident and announced a timely investigation to clarify what happened.
“Today we received a report of the death of a Puma in the town of Buenavista, municipality of Plato and its subsequent display as a trophy among the population. We reject these cruel acts against wildlife and we inform the citizens that A Corpamag team will move to the area and begin the pertinent investigationsthat allows this crime not to go unpunished,” the entity announced.
Finally, and with the aim of preventing these acts from continuing to occur, Corpamag called on the community to report cases of sightings of felines, or possible conflicts, through the line 54380200 or to the institutional email [email protected].
