MEXICO CITY – A dromedary, or Arabian camel, that was being sold at a street market in the central Mexican city of Almoloya de Juarez has been seized, the Profepa federal environmental protection agency said.
Profepa inspectors went to the San Bernabe street market at the request of the State Public Safety Commission in Mexico state, which surrounds the Federal District and forms part of the Mexico City metropolitan area, and “found a person who was trying to sell wildlife without the proper legal documents,” the agency said.
The camel had been the subject of an administrative case against the King Black Circus because the attraction’s operators could not document how they obtained the animal.
Officials were unable to seize the animal because the circus could not be located.
Mexico state environmental officials confirmed, thanks to microchips implanted in the animals, that the dromedary (Camelus dromedarius) and some llamas had belonged to the circus.
The camel was taken to the wildlife management unit in Jocotitlan, a city in Mexico state, where it will be cared for, the agency said.
Mexico City approved a law on July 8 that prohibits circuses from using wild animals, prompting the attractions to rid themselves of the creatures because they cannot afford to care for them.
By coincidence, Almoyola de Juarez is home to the Altiplano I federal prison, where drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” (Shorty) Guzman escaped on Saturday night.
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