Friday December 30, 2022 | 10:45 a.m.
In recent days, members of the Police Environmental Defense Directorate rescued two coatis that were in domestic captivity in San José and a blue macaw, a species declared endangered, that appeared in a house in Candelaria.
The first intervention took place at a home in the Malvinas neighborhood of San José, the troops complied with a verification order from the local Justice of the Peace, establishing that a coati was in captivity in the aforementioned property.
That is why, once on the site, they reported the procedure to the owner of the place and she delivered the animal. Likewise, in Candelaria, the uniformed officers protected another coati, who had arrived disoriented at a home.
On the other hand, in the vicinity of Roque Sáenz Peña and Urquiza streets, in Candelaria, the environmentalists learned, through the person in charge of the fauna department, that a blue macaw was found in a house located on the aforementioned streets. wounded in the top of a tree.
Therefore, they approached that point, where they checked the state of the animal and protected it. All the specimens were taken to a rehabilitation center in the El Puma ecological park and intervention was given to the Ministry of Ecology.
