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After it became known that the Regional Autonomous Corporation of Risaralda (Carder) demanded a decision from the National Environmental Licensing Authority (Anla) that allows the Tesoros de Colombia society to hunt 23 species of animals, Anla issued a response.
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Between other reasons, Carder assured that it was against the license because it guarantees that the company hunts five species found in the department of Risaralda.
“We consider that they are species that are threatened; species that if we remove them from our ecosystems, our environmental ecotourism landscape would lose interest,” said the director of Carder, Julio César Gómez Salazar.
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For his part, Iván Lozano, director of Tesoros Colombia, said that the idea of his organization is not to attack these species, since his is a conservation project.
As he warned, their business model is to capture the animals, make them reproduce, sell the new specimens legally and return the individuals to their ecosystem that were removed from him at first.
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Likewise, Anla responded to the controversy with a statement in which it explained details of Resolution 2370 of December 3, 2019, which was the one it issued to give permits to the zoocriadero of the Colombian Treasure Society.
“Promotion hunting is defined by the Code (referring to the National Code of Natural Resources) as that which is carried out with the exclusive purpose of acquiring specimens for the establishment of breeding farms”, said the entity and warned that at first the environmental license was granted by the Regional Autonomous Corporation of Cundinamarca (CAR).
He defended the issuance of the Resolution and pointed out that it was promulgated “in compliance with current environmental regulations and that it provides for management measures for the prevention, correction, mitigation or compensation of the environmental impacts of the project.”
Added that the companies that receive these licenses are obliged to abide by environmental regulations and must “comply with the replacement and repopulation quotas for harvesting.” This depending on the requirements of each corresponding Regional Autonomous Corporation.
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Finally, Anla cited a statement from Tesoros de Colombia in which it indicated that it will not exercise the right to hunt and that it will suspend its activities until it achieves a conciliation process with the authorities and communities of each territory.
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