Specialists from the Nature Protection Service (Seprona) of the Civil Guard investigated a resident of Lorca (Murcia) to have four specimens of Iberian wolf as pets inside a fence next to his home, as Benemérita sources reported in a statement.
After the investigation, called “Lupus” and developed in collaboration with veterinarians from the Town Hall, the Army Institute initiated proceedings against the individual as a suspect. perpetrator of a crime against flora and fauna for illegal possession of protected wild animal specimens.
The actions began at the end of last October, when the Seprona Civil Guards obtained a series of indications, thanks to citizen collaboration, about the possible possession of wolves on the land of a resident of Lorca.
The first stages of the operation made it possible to obtain the location of protected species. On site, officers checked that in a fence attached to the house there were four canids that looked like wolves who ate meat.
The Civil Guards coordinated with the Veterinary Service of the Lorca City Hall to determine that these animals, due to their characteristics, were compatible with the Iberian wolf.
The Iberian wolf It is a protected specimen and is included in the annex of Royal Decree 139/2011, of February 4, for the elaboration of the list of wild species under special protection regime and the Spanish catalog of threatened species.
