Overview

• Profepa agents seized 22 wild animals at an itinerant stand near Querétaro’s El Tepetate market after the merchant failed to prove their legal provenance.
• Nine of the confiscated animals are listed under Mexico’s NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010 and Appendix II of CITES, granting them national and international protection.
• The operation recovered five iguanas, four axolotls, one veiled chameleon, ten red-eyed tree frogs, and two white-bellied hedgehogs.
• All specimens have been transferred to authorized environmental management units where their dignified treatment and conservation care will be ensured.
• Profepa has opened a legal-administrative procedure to repair environmental harm from the illegal trade and reiterated its commitment to combat wildlife trafficking.