The construction of a new hostel in it Metropolitan area for replace at Hill Valley will start the deployment in Tenerife of a network of care centers for abandoned animals.
Is he plan of the Tenerife Council for the next few years given the poor state of the facilities at the La Laguna campus and the need to have new infrastructure. He announced it Rosa Davilapresident of the insular Corporation, in a visit this Wednesday to Valle Colino in which she was accompanied by her vice president, Lope Afonso.
Dávila revealed that the island Government is looking for a new location for the regional hostel that serves the metropolitan area (Santa Cruz, La Laguna, Tegueste and El Rosario) before the deterioration of the premises of the one located in the outskirts of the lagoon municipality. “It will be the first step to launch the Island Network of Regional Hostels,” the island president stressed about the intention of her team in her mandate.
This idea was endorsed by the Animal Welfare Advisor, Valentín González, also present at yesterday’s visit. “The future of Valle Colino involves promoting a new center,” he said to clarify that this project “will require the collaboration of the municipalities of the metropolitan area“. «We are already immersed in the search for a new locationwhich allows us to improve the conditions in which the animals are found and the professionals carry out their work,” he noted.
The Cabildo has the four metropolitan municipalities (Santa Cruz, La Laguna, El Rosario and Tegueste) for a new shelter
The last of these town councils that asked a solution to the poor conditions of Valle Colino It was the one from Santa Cruz. In August, the local Chicharrero government requested an urgent meeting with the Cabildo so that the insular Corporation “gets involved in the survival of the abandoned animal care center.”.
So he Councilor for Animal Welfare of Santa Cruz, Carlos Tarife, met with representatives of the other three municipalities that share the financing of this center, and with members of the Canarian Federation of Animal and Plant Protectors, manager of the shelter. La Laguna, Tegueste and El Rosario joined the request for a meeting with the Cabildo to “intervene in the management”. The representatives of these four councils also agreed to advance 80% of the financial item of the agreement relating to this year of 467,600 euros.
Tarife noted at that time that «The Cabildo must get wet and manage Valle Colino as it already does with the other two animal centers in the North and South. “It is not only about providing financing and improving the facilities, since the center is overflowing without enough space to keep the animals in the best conditions,” explained the Chicharrero mayor.
Valle Colino has been left without space and without means to care for a growing number of abandoned animals. Currently, it houses 240 dogs and fifty cats.
Lope Afonso, island vice presidentstressed during this Wednesday’s visit that “this government seeks provide the Island with a true insular Animal Welfare policywhich must start from the reactivation of the Animal Welfare Council, trying to bring together all possible entities.
“From there we are going to make decisions that direct this island policy towards providing better infrastructure and equipment in this area, working as a network, involving entities and city councils,” he stated, in statements included in a statement from the Tenerife Cabildo.
