Specimens put up for sale without the necessary documentation certifying their legal origin, and a shopkeeper operating in Lotzorai ended up in trouble.
The check was carried out by the forestry carabinieri of the CITES unit of Cagliari to verify compliance with the Washington convention, signed by more than 160 countries in order to protect biodiversity by placing rules on the trade of wild flora and fauna species at risk of extinction .
It thus emerged that 4 specimens (1 bull shark jaw) and 3 corals widespread in the Indo Pacific area were put up for sale without documentation and, therefore, removed from traceability.
The military denounced the operator and placed the specimens under seizure for confiscation: they can subsequently be used for scientific-informative purposes.
(Unioneonline/ss)
