SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Dec. 24 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Plenary Hall of the Cabildo de Tenerife has hosted this week a meeting of the Animal Welfare Council, chaired by the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Javier Parrilla, in which it has been agreed to develop a massive campaign for the control and sterilization of cats in all the municipalities of the island with a view to 2023.
Javier Parrilla explains in a note that this strategy will be managed by the Official College of Veterinarians of Tenerife, but agreed, coordinated and supervised by both the Cabildo, as well as by the town halls, associations and protectors.
The island manager highlights the importance of collaborating with all the agents involved and recalls that, according to the College of Veterinarians, only 20 percent of cats are sterilized.
On the other hand, he continues, “the creation and implementation of a 24-hour public collection service has been agreed for those animals that have been run over or have suffered any other type of damage on island roads.”
Thus, once collected, he indicates, “the animals would be transported to a veterinary clinic for care and recovery.”
The session of this council was attended by representatives of all the political parties with representation in the Cabildo, the General Director of Livestock of the Government of the Canary Islands, Juan Muñoz, the ADEPAC, FECAPAP and ANIMALIA associations, the Ecology and Evolution in Islands group, representatives of town halls, the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Official College of Veterinarians, the Bar Association and, as a novelty, the technical managers of the insular Highway area.
The new members of the Council also attended: Seprona, CSIC, the Association for the Conservation of Canary Biodiversity (ACBC) and Neotrópico.
