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Veterinarians Carolina Saenz (L) and Estefania Rubio treat a six-month-old silvery woolly monkey (Lagothrix poeppigii), species in danger of extinction, at the TUERI Wildlife Hospital, created by the San Francisco University of San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), in Quito on October 2, 2023, after it was seized in Puerto Francisco de Orellana, also known as El Coca, by the Environment Ministry and taken to this centre for evaluation. A pair of caged jaguars on a hacienda has uncovered a cruel trend among Ecuador's drug traffickers. In the style of cocaine baron Pablo Escobar, drug lords set up clandestine zoos that endanger the fauna in a megadiverse country. This is not the only case, but it is one of the most striking. (Photo by Galo Paguay/AFP Photo)
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