Ecuador: Man Sentenced to Six-Months Prison for killing Jaguar in Amazon Forest

Posted on September 11, 2015 • Filed under: Crime, Ecuador

jgrguardiannews.com reported a hunter who killed a jaguar in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest was sentenced to six months in prison, officials announced Friday, in a case echoing the deadly shooting Cecil the Lion in Zimbabwe.

Ecuador’s Environment Ministry said Friday that the hunter posted a picture on Facebook of the slaughtered big cat. The man, identified only as Luis Alfredo O., admitted to “shooting and killing the jaguar, taking it back to his home, and distributing the meat to his neighbors.” The Ecuadoran government in 2008 imposed strict laws to protect endangered animals, including the jaguar. Officials said they confiscated the jaguar pelt from the man’s home. Read Article

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