Tag: Punta Tombo Massacre

• Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 09:03 UTC

  Chubut court releases Punta Tombo Massacre perpetrator on parole

  

  Chubut agribusinessman Ricardo La Regina was handed down a three-year sentence by a three-judge court in the city of Rawson for the 2021 killing of a colony of Magellanic penguins in the Punta Tombo reservation.

• Thursday, November 7th 2024 - 21:34 UTC

  Punta Tombo Massacre perpetrator found guilty

  

  A Chubut provincial criminal court in the city of Rawson in Argentine Patagonia Thursday found agribusinessman Ricardo La Regina guilty of aggravated damage and animal cruelty in the so-called Punta Tombo Penguin Massacre. Sentencing is scheduled for Monday.

• Tuesday, October 29th 2024 - 22:25 UTC

  Punta Tombo penguin massacre trial begins

  

  The trial against Argentine Patagonian rancher Luis Alberto La Regina started this week in the city of Comodoro Rivadavia in the province of Chubut. He is prosecuted for the destruction of 175 nests, with an average of two eggs per nest, in addition to crushing chicks and adult animals in a natural sanctuary to open a rural road in what became known as the Punta Tombo Massacre. The defendant was denounced by his nephew back in 2021.