By Cathy Elelman • Published: 14 Mar 2019 • 10:58
PROTECTED: It’s illegal to transport this species of tortoise without CITES documentation. Photo credit: Guardia Civil
A ROUTINE Guardia Civil check on vehicles coming off a ferry from North Africa led to the discovery of a protected species of Mora tortoise in a van.
Officers found the tortoises in a box on top of the dashboard.
The police detained a 39-year old for transporting the tortoise without Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) documentation issued by a member state administrative authority.
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Cathy Elelman is the local writer for the Costa de Almeria edition of the Euro Weekly News.
Based in Mojacar for the last 21 years, Cathy is very much part of the local community and is always well and truly up on all the latest news and events going on in this region of Spain.
Her top goals are to do the best job she can informing the local English-speaking community, visitors to the area and the wider world about about the news in Almeria, to learn something new every day, and to embrace very new challenge this fast-changing world brings her way.
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