Conservation Groups Want Stricter Laws to Protect Wildlife
 
The Conservation Association of Flora and Fauna (APREFLOFA) and Importadora Monge are planning to collect the 160,000 signitures needed to present an initiative that would establish harsher penalities for trafficking and sport hunting of the Costa Rican wildlife.
The APREFLORAS is a private non profit, non political organization that is part of the most important network of Costa Rican ecologists, FECON, and the World Conservation Union. The Importadora Monge is a retail chain that sells household goods. With the backing of an experience conservation group and the power of 150 retail stores, they will try to collect all the signatures starting now until next June.  Â
The illegal hunting and trafficking of wild animals has become quite the hobby here in Costa Rica.Â
The wildlife is why many tourists Visit Costa Rica and is what the citizens are most proud of, so if it was taken away, many industries would suffer.Â
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