On an area of over 50,000 square meters in the cadastre of the village of Bétera in northeastern Spain, police found stuffed cheetahs, leopards, lions, lynxes, polar bears, rhinos, alligators, monkeys and even elephants. Two hundred giant elephant tusks were exhibited in the hall and trophies of various animals on the walls. Police also found a number of boxes with packed pieces, which were apparently to be the subject of trade. On the plot, which also housed a residential house, there were also chairs covered with animal skins or dozens of stools from elephant legs.
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Of the more than a thousand specimens, 405 are on the list of endangered species under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Among them was the saber-horned rhinoceros, which is considered an extinct species.
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