QUITO: Three people were sentenced by an Ecuadoran court Friday to a year in prison for trafficking 84 giant tortoises and five golden iguanas from the Galapagos, a fragile ecosystem registered as a Natural World Heritage site.The defendants pleaded guilty and were also fined $29,000, the national prosecutor's office said in a statement.The trio were arrested in June when the Ecuadoran Navy boarded the boat in which they were traveling and found five bags filled with the golden land iguanas and nine boxes containing the San Cristobal giant tortoises, seven of which were dead.The animals were being “transferred from the Galapagos to be traded in Guayaquil,“ the prosecutor’s office said.It sai
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