29 March 2023
Born Free invites news that the Spanish federal government has actually authorized the law on the Protection of Animal Rights and Welfare.
The brand-new law will lastly produce a total restriction of wild animals in circuses throughout the whole nation and follows several years of marketing by the InfoCircos union of NGOs, whose determination has actually already seen 12 of the nation’s 17 areas generate localised restrictions.
There is strong and growing public opposition to making use of wild animals in circuses, which has actually caused a growing number of European nations generating restrictions, assisting to phase out this outdated market, and the associated trade of wild animals such as huge cats, which typically wind up being offered as unique family pets.
The brand-new legislation likewise consists of strategies to present a ‘positive’ list system which would limit the types that can be kept as unique family pets in Spain. A variety of nations, consisting of within Europe, have actually embraced or remain in the procedure of executing ‘positive lists’ for family pet keeping, which just allows the keeping of types on the list. Such a system has the prospective to considerably lower the scale and scope of unique family pet trade and keeping, while likewise embracing a preventive technique. Any types consisted of on a favorable list needs to satisfy requirements associating with animal well-being, preservation, human and animal health and wellness and ecological dangers.
“These are essential advances for captive wild animal well-being in Spain, which will ideally even more motivate other nations to take comparable action” said Sarah Jefferson, Born Free’s Captivity Campaigns Information Coordinator.
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