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Joint action stopped the continuous destruction of forest cover in the Limones sector, province of Rioja.The Specialized Environmental Prosecutors Office (FEMA) of Moyobamba in San Martin, carried out an interdiction procedure in the Limones sector of the Yuracyacu district, where a rustic dairy was detected allegedly used as an operations center for illegal logging in this area of the province of Rioja.
The intervention was directed by the provincial deputy prosecutor Hilda Ferrer Benites, with the participation of the Regional Environmental Authority and the District Municipality. Kitchen utensils, chainsaws and tools used for forest depredation were found at the site, showing that it functioned as an operations center for this illicit activity.
The alleged owners of the intervened land denied responsibility for the construction and use of the dairy farm. However, given the existence of flagrancy due to acts of recent logging in the area, the Prosecutors Office - in application of Legislative Decree No. 1220 that establishes measures to combat illegal logging - ordered the destruction and incineration of the structure, as well as the seizure of the instruments found.
The Public Ministry warns that illegal logging and destruction of forests is punishable by imprisonment, especially when it affects protected natural resources and causes serious environmental damage.
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