Estudio del marco normativo de la fauna silvestre en Colombia

Abstract

The problems surrounding wildlife trafficking and their implications in departments of Ecosystemic importance such as Caqueta, requires a revision of the legal guidelines and the dimension of their impact as an input for the establishment of effective strategies for control, exploitation and conservation. The research Study of the normative framework of the fauna in Colombia, used analytical and comparative methods, started from a revision of the national legal framework on the use of wild animals from their perception as natural resource and as sentient beings, together with the descriptive analysis of the figures of seizures, voluntary deliveries and rescues registered by the environmental authority of the zone –Corpoamazonia –, years 2014, 2015 and quarters I and II of 2016. The conclusions refer to the strengthening of environmental educational strategies and, in parallel, to reinforcing punitive processes in actions that are considered to be a crime involving wild fauna, considering in each case both the natural resource crime and the welfare of the specimens together with the corresponding sanctions and reparation processes; likewise, the necessary increase of government support to regional administrative entities, through strategies to strengthen the Environmental Police and Environmental Military Service, as well as administrative for the department’s environmental entity and the establishment of effective mechanisms for stimulating and the creation of breeding centers of species on which a greater level of anthropic pressure is developed.