00:02These monkeys live in the zoological area in Colombia.
00:06They have been rescued from the illegal traffic of species.
00:12Every time they see a crie, we have to have in the head that there was a mother who died,
00:20and that was intercepted by the crie.
00:23Because the crie gets very strong from the mother and they don't let them.
00:28The animals in exhibition in the zoological Jaime Duque,
00:32near Bogotá, are not in condition to return to their ecosystems.
00:37In the felinos, it happens a lot that they take off the garras,
00:40here they take off the canines,
00:41it is very common to see also amputations at the level of the falanges,
00:45at the level of the cola,
00:48medical and nutritional issues,
00:50are also very complex to treat.
00:56Also, there are animals and exotic animals that have been abandoned by particulars,
01:01that they buy for a purpose,
01:04but then they realize that they can't take care of adequately.
01:10It happens a lot, it is very common,
01:11even sometimes they ask us to receive the animals,
01:14we cannot receive the animals from a natural person,
01:18they have to be some corporations that take care of the animals,
01:20and then they bring them here,
01:22they mark them with a chip,
01:23and they have the register of each animal.
01:24When we say that we cannot receive the animals,
01:26sometimes they leave them thrown out in the door of the park,
01:30or they find them thrown out in a lake,
01:31so it is something that sometimes happens to us.
01:34The zoológico also is the home of animals that were used in circus.
01:40They are animals that they did not learn to catch
01:43and that they can't return to their habitat in Africa.
01:47The entry that pay those who visit the zoológico
01:50serve as economic support for programs like the conservation of the condor andino.
01:55This new hue is really a hope for the population of condors in Colombia,
01:59not only because it is connecting to the people that we see,
02:02that we visit here in the Fundation,
02:04but also because it can be able to support
02:05either a program of reproduction or a repobling.
02:10Whether it be the case,
02:11every individual is supremely valuable to preserve the species,
02:15from their genetic aspect to the abundance of free individuals.
02:21It is estimated that only 30% of the animals
02:25that have been victims of the mafia.
02:29For its great biodiversity,
02:31Colombia is especially susceptible to the trafficking of species,
02:33which mainly affects a and primates.
02:36Also the jaguar,
02:37which is persecuted by the high value that has the skin
02:39and the garras in the black market.
02:42The Colombian authorities that fight against this crime
02:44have rescued more than 8.000 animals living
02:46from 2017 to 2024.
02:50Some of them,
02:51they end their days in the zoologicals of the country.
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