Periodismo de Investigación/ Sebastián Zurita24 agosto, 202230min2220
According to Danny Rueda Córdova, Director of the Galapagos National Park, and to information from the Santa Cruz Prosecutor's Office, on Friday, September 24, 2021, during a routine patrol at 8am, rangers from the Isabela Technical Unit (UTI, in Spanish) of the Galapagos National Park Directorate (GNPD) found the remains of 15 giant tortoises killed and slaughtered in the La Gorra sector, a rural area east of the Sierra Negra volcano, 16 kilometers from Puerto Villamil. Two of the tortoises had recently been murdered. They had been butchered. Of both, only the back (dorsal part of the shell) with the large intestine attached and the separated plastrons (ventral part of the shell) remained.
