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He is credited with authorship of the alleged offense concerning the protection of flora, fauna and pets
These are several examples of sea carrot, a protected plant species, whose population has been decimated after plowing the farm
The Guardia Civil has enjoyed the cooperation of the local police in San Javier
The Civil Guard in the region of Murcia, in the framework of the operation 'CARROT', has accused a person on suspicion of crime on the protection of flora, fauna and domestic animals, the destruction of several copies of the Spinosa Echinofora species known as sea carrot on a private estate of La Manga del Mar Menor, San Javier.
The carrot is a marine plant species classified as vulnerable in the Regional Catalogue of Protected Flora, whose few populations in coastal dune sands and eastern coast are monitored by the Civil Guard.
Recently, and in relation to this monitoring and protection, civil Protection Service of Nature (SEPRONA) guards were alerted by members of the local police in San Javier, of weeding being made on a plot of La Manga Mar Menor, where they could have destroyed some of these plants.
The Civil Guard found the existence of a colony of this species in the plot indicated, in which they were conducting clearing work with the extraction of sand and then dumping it on the beach, with the consequent destruction of several copies of Echinophora Spinosa.
The researchers found that these efforts were being made without corresponding administrative authorizations so that, once identified the responsible and owner of the farm, they proceeded to its complaint on suspicion of crime on the protection of flora, fauna and pets .
The proceedings initiated have been made known to the Magistrate's Court in San Javier (Murcia).
An open by the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia to recatalog the Echinofora Spinosa as an endangered subspecies, being especially vulnerable flora, with limited populations and whose loss would mean a deterioration of ecosystems procedure.
Source: Ministerio del Interior
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