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Representatives of the airport and the Galapagos National Park (PNG) detected in a suitcase some 185 specimens of turtles to be removed from the archipelago to the Ecuadorian mainland, the environmental authority reported on Sunday.
“At the #Baltra airport, 185 newborn turtles were detected in a suitcase that was being transferred to mainland Ecuador”, the Ministry of the Environment published on Twitter.
The Galapagos Islands are located 1,000 km off the coast of Ecuador and have unique flora and fauna in the world.
Precise environment that the find occurred “During a routine inspection between @aerogalapagos and @parquegalapagos” and without providing further details, he warned that the Police and Prosecutor “They are taking procedure”.
The archipelago, which served as a natural laboratory for the English scientist Charles Darwin for his theory on the evolution of species, takes its name from the gigantic turtles that live there.
Minister Marcelo Mata, in the same social network, rejected “These crimes against wildlife and the natural heritage of Ecuadorians”.
The official added that he trusts that the events that occurred in this ecosystem that is part of the biosphere reserve “Are sanctioned with all rigor in accordance with current regulations“.
The illegal trafficking of wildlife is a crime that includes a prison term of one to three years, according to Ecuadorian law.
The giant tortoises came three or four million years to that volcanic region in the Pacific.
It is believed that the marine currents dispersed their specimens across the islands, and that was how 15 different species were created -of which three are formally extinct-, each adapted to its territory.
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