Says Sterilization Will Help Reduce Canine Attacks
By Majid Nabi
Srinagar- Renowned environmentalist, animal rights activist and member parliament, Maneka Gandhi while stressing on preserving forests, asserted that human-animal conflicts will continue until and unless people cease hurting animals and destroying their shelter.
Gandhi said movement of animals from forest areas to human settlements could be avoided, if forests are preserved and cleanliness is maintained.
“Preservation of forests and cleanliness is the only way to prevent growing human-animal conflicts. After all they are animals, they will certainly retort when they are chased, harmed and their shelters are destroyed, where they will go,” Gandhi said replying to a media query regarding growing human-animal conflicts in Kashmir.
On the growing dog population in Srinagar, she said sterilization was the better option to prevent canine attacks than to relocate them from one place to another.
She said dogs become aggressive when they are relocated from their original place and that the sterilization will help reduce canine attacks in the city in a substantial way.
“Dogs bite when they are taken away from their original place, if we stop relocating them from one place to another and use sterilization methods, their population can be contained and they won’t bite,” she added.
She said the aim of her visit to Kashmir was to chip in dog sterilization programs and more importantly to make animal welfare associations stronger.
“We want to help as many animals as possible; therefore I will support and encourage animal welfare organizations in J&K to become more powerful. People will do that, but I will guide them,” she added.
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