The No Hunting Platform (NAC) went out yesterday morning to the streets of downtown Santa Cruz to make their fight against this activity visible. “Today hunting has no reason to be,” said María Teresa García, coordinator of Tenerife and the platform’s international NAC, who explained that these concentrations began “10-11 years ago with one at Puerta del Sol in Madrid of some people who had to do with protectors and who saw the great mistreatment that there was between hunting dogs”. “It began by asking for the use of dogs in hunting to be eliminated – he continued -, since we are the only country in the EU that continues to use them, and now the no to hunting is directly requested because today it does not make sense, because they are no longer hunted for food.”
In this sense, García argued that “the majority of dogs that end up in shelters seriously injured or mistreated, about 70-75% come from the world of hunting, estimates a survey that was done.” For this reason, since that protest at the Puerta del Sol in Madrid years ago, these concentrations have been held “on the first Sunday in February, when the hunting season ends, to such an extent that today [ayer] We have appeared in 40 cities in Spanish territory and in 7 or 8 cities outside the country”, he pointed out.
In Santa Cruz, the concentration, which included the participation of protectors and the Canarian Federation of Associations for the Protection of Animals and Plants (Fecacap), left yesterday from Plaza Weyler to the Cabildo, where a manifesto was read, according to María Teresa García. .
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He recalled that, in parallel, from the platform many other actions are carried out “in society, activities in schools to raise awareness, and in institutions to raise awareness, inform and ask for support”. In addition, he added that the platform presented allegations to the new Animal Protection Law “so that all dogs are included and that hunting dogs are not excluded, as desired, and that on top of that they are the most mistreated.”
