Inside Argentina’s Biggest Wildlife Trafficking Bust

On the outskirts of Dolores, a small town in the northeast of Buenos Aires province, Argentina, on a recent night in August, a bunch of police teams gathered at a gas station to go over the final details of the largest anti-wildlife trafficking operation in Argentina’s history. More than 1,000 kilometers to the northwest, in the province of Santiago del Estero, another group of agents were simultaneously getting ready to carry out 13 raids that day in different parts of the country.

The target of the operation was Caza y Safaris Argentina, a company controlled by Jorge Néstor Noya, a businessman and hunter dedicated to running tourist packages that illegally hunted animals in different parts of Argentina.  

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