NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
Cromwell Rd. South
Kensington
LONDON SW7 5BD
United Kingdom
Subject: REQUESTING THE RETURN OF THE STUFFED HEAD OF THE
IBEX PIRENAICUS (PYRENEAN BUCARDO MOUNTAIN GOAT) HUNTED BY EDWARD N. BUXTON IN
1885.
Dear Mr. Director,
In 1881 the British
hunter Edward N. Buxton rented the rights to hunt in the valley of Ordesa in
the central Pyrenees and ordered to install the Cotatuero Iron Pins, so they
could close the escape routes of this huge goats and kill them easily. During
the following years the extermination of this goat species was perpetrated.
Many aristocrats travelled to the Pyrenees to get their trophy. There was no
mercy for the Pyrenean Ibex.
Buxton´s behavior was an execrable crime and it is our duty
to right it. Cotatuero must be returned to its rightful owners: the Pyrenean
Bucardo Mountain Goats. Nature granted them this ancestral land a hundred
thousand years ago; they were living there when the glaciers retreated.
Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, France and Switzerland have
already reintroduced the ibex in their mountain ranges and Spain will soon
follow them. The return of the Bucardo Mountain Goats is inalienable. No one
will be able to stop it.
The stuffed head of the Bucardo Ibex that Edward N. Buxton
donated to the Natural History Museum constitutes a cruel affront against the
Pyrenean wild Nature. We formally request you to give it back to the
authorities in the Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park.
Huesca (Aragón) the 1st of November 2025
Jesús Vallés Gracia
Pirineos Wilderness e Ibex pirenaicus-Ordesa vivo.
C/ Sánchez Ventura 35
22600 Sabiñánigo
España
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