El operativo hizo parte de las acciones articuladas entre Corpoguajira y las autoridades, effectively to combat environmental crime.

By: Communications Equipment

An average of 26 cubic meters of charcoal seized by the National Police in the kilometer 55 pathway Palomino-Riohacha (Sector Ebanal), los cuales fueron entregados a Corpoguajira, entity that immediately carried out its transfer to the Collection Center, located in Rio Claro (Dibulla).

El material confiscado estaba distribuido en 1.179 sacos. The impacted resource corresponds to the Trupillo species, Guayacan and Puy.

According to information obtained at the time of attending the proceedings, each bag weighed 20 approximately kilos and has a price in the national market of $50.000, reason why, The total value of the confiscated material has been estimated at 58 millones 950 A thousand pesos.

The product was transported in a tractor-trailer and is declared definitively confiscated since the origin is from the natural forest., illegal exploitation carried out in indigenous areas and two of the species declared closed by the Agreement 003 of 2012.

Likewise, in the charcoal production process, the Agreement is being violated 009 of 2012, through which the production of this material was regulated in the department of La Guajira.

The seizure was registered in the Single Act of Control of Illegal Traffic in Wild Flora and Fauna, for relevant purposes.

La producción de carbón vegetal afecta en gran medida la diversidad biológica de la región, Some consequences of these practices are: la pérdida del hábitat de innumerables especies, la emisión de gases efecto invernadero, acelera el fenómeno de variabilidad climática, contribuye con la desertificación y la sequía, inter.

Corpoguajira invita a todos los habitantes de la península a denunciar cualquier hecho que represente un peligro para el medio ambiente, conservation of natural resources and biodiversity, a través de los números 310 6581142, 318 5858383 and 300 6008358.