Spanish police have seized 139 animals — lots of them harmful — from a house in Gran Canaria after the proprietor died.

The Nature Safety Service (SEPRONA) of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria within the Spanish Canary Islands stated 118 animals are invasive species and 21 are thought-about harmful.

The authorities stated the seized animals "have a excessive reproductive capability and pose a significant issue for the ecosystem, in addition to having the ability to transmit harmful illnesses to people."

They have been seized from a house within the rural municipality of San Bartolome de Tirajana in Gran Canaria.

Authorities stated the animals are included within the CITES (Conference on Worldwide Commerce in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) settlement and within the Spanish checklist of invasive unique species.

The Spanish Civil Guard stated in a press release on March 20: "Among the many species seized have been one ball python, two Burmese pythons, one dwarf caiman, two bearded dragons, two Greek tortoises, 34 crayfish, one leopard gecko, 46 big African snails, seven colubrid snakes, one American bullfrog, one japanese long-necked turtle, eight iguanas, one spectacled caiman, 23 red-eared sliders, 13 blue-tongued lizards, three African spurred tortoises, 200 rats, 100 mice, and an undetermined variety of cockroaches, worms and crickets."

Exotic Animals, Ranch, Dead Man
Police eliminated 139 animals, together with alligators, from a ranch in San Bartolome de Tirajana, Spain. Spanish Civil Guard/Zenger

The elimination occurred after the Civil Guard realized that an individual who had lately died left a big assortment of prohibited non-domestic animals in a non-public property that he had became a zoo.

"The SEPRONA Patrol of San Mateo contacted a relative of the deceased, who voluntarily agreed to enter the home for an inspection of the services, the place the animals have been positioned," the assertion stated. The animals have been captured and transferred to the Crocodile Park, police stated.

"The Civil Guard factors out that invasive alien species (IAS) are one of many predominant causes of biodiversity loss on this planet," the police assertion stated.

The authorities stated an invasive alien species is an animal that has been "launched or established in an ecosystem or pure or semi-natural habitat that's an agent of change and a menace to native biodiversity, both by its invasive conduct, or by the chance of genetic contamination."

In late February, additionally in Gran Canaria, Spanish police seized a big personal assortment of toxic animals and arrested one man for preserving 53 protected specimens in his city dwelling. Among the many specimens have been a Gila monster, a Chinese language crocodile lizard and numerous species of alligators.

This story was offered to Newsweek by Zenger Information.