The Junta de Castilla y León and the Nature Protection Service (Seprona) of the Civil Guard investigate the death of two wolves whose bodies were located on the land of a private hunting reserve in the town of Lois, in the municipality of Crémenes (Lion). The investigation began last Sunday, December 17 after reports of shots fired at wolves during a wild boar hunt. After two days of searching the area, regional technicians and Seprona agents located the bodies of two wolves, decapitated and skinned.
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The official note published by the Junta de Castilla y León highlights that after communicating the facts to the judicial authority, the criminal investigation has begun for alleged crimes against the environment. "During the afternoon of Sunday, December 17, the Board learned of an alleged episode of poaching due to the shooting of several Iberian wolves during a wild boar hunt on land in the Lois private reserve, belonging to the municipality of Crémenes. Immediately, the Board brought these facts to the attention of the regional coordination of Seprona in Castilla y León, planning surveillance and inspection devices on the land where the hunt took place," the regional administration details in its note.
The investigation on the ground allowed the discovery of 18 traces of blood on Monday, and on Wednesday during the continuation of the field tracking work carried out by environmental agents, environmental guards and specialist laborers of the Board, assigned to the forest region of Riaño and the regional hunting reserve of Riaño, the remains of two shot wolves were located, which were skinned and decapitated," details the official note.
The events described could constitute a crime in accordance with the provisions of the penal code, which is why an investigation has been opened in this regard by the Seprona of the Civil Guard through the Seprona Patrol of Riaño reinforced by the investigation team and the León Patrol, in close collaboration with the staff of the Junta de Castilla y León, in order to locate those responsible for this poaching event.
