In 2022, six alleged members of an illegal trafficking network dedicated to trafficking hydrobiological species were arrested in Bogotá. The group are said to have illicitly extracted protected fish from Vichada and the Amazon and would subsequently sell them to exotic animal collectors and aquarium owners across the USA, China, Hong Kong and Germany, amongst other destinations in Asia and Europe. The organisation – who had been undertaking this illicit activity since 2018 – would group the fish and send them as packages from Bogotá’s El Dorado Airport. The evidence showed they removed 1,000-2,000 endangered or vulnerable fish a week. The defendants were charged with conspiracy, illicit exploitation of natural resources, illegal fishing activities, and illicit handling of exotic species, charges that they all accepted by the defendants.