Macau,Rennstrecke innerhalb der nächsten 3 Jahre geschlossen
Verfasst: Di 8. Mai 2012, 19:50
Übersetzung folgt
Macau dog track backtracks on an adoption program, letters needed nowPLEASE
FORWARD WIDELY TO ALL YOUR GROUPS AND CONTACTS NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL
AND ALL ANTI-GREYHOUND RACING CAMPAIGNERS WORLDWIDE AND ALL
WEBSITES,TWITTER, MYSPACE AND FACEBOOK FOR MAXIMUM PUBLICITY
Macau Canidrome dog track to close within 3 years!?
Latest news on the Macau Canidrome dog track. Please see below. This dog
track has been reported for killing nearly 400 racing greyhounds in 2010.
There has been international pressure from us and other animal welfare
groups around the globe and this is the latest news. The closure of this
death track cannot come quick enough for us but we have to possibly wait
until 2015 now, in betweeen time even more dogs are inevitably going to be
killed there!
Thank you to all those that helped with this campaign
Greyhound Crusaders/SWAP team UK
Canidrome to 'close within three years'
Outcry over slaughter of greyhounds at notorious Macau racetrack will force
government to cancel its lease, says leading animal welfare campaigner
Simon Parry
May 06, 2012
An international campaign against the mass killing of greyhounds at the
Macau Canidrome has embarrassed the city's government and will lead to the
closure of the track within three years, the head of the city's leading
animal welfare group believes.
Albano Martins, chairman of the Society for the Protection of Animals
(ANIMA), expects the Macau government to cancel the controversial venue's
land lease when it expires in 2015 because of growing local and overseas
pressure for the Canidrome to close.
Martins expects to meet Macau chief executive Fernando Chui Sai-on over the
issue later this month and said he would call for the number of greyhounds
imported from Australia to be reduced and for the number of daily races to
be cut to reduce greyhound injuries.
A global campaign by animal welfare groups began last year when a Sunday
Morning Post (SEHK: 0583, announcements, news)investigation revealed how 383
dogs were euthanised in the Canidrome in 2010, most of them healthy and most
aged no more than five or six years old.
Because there is no mechanism for the greyhounds to be adopted after
retirement, all are killed by lethal injection, often for no other reason
than that they are too slow to finish in the top three of the
three-times-a-week races.
Following an outcry, Canidrome bosses met government officials and ANIMA and
agreed to hand over at least one retired greyhound for adoption, Martins
said.
However, the Canidrome reneged on the deal on the day the greyhound was due
to be handed over in April, according to Martins.
There has been no communication between ANIMA and the Canidrome since.
Since the breakdown in talks, the Canidrome has begun to disguise the level
of greyhound deaths by recording that dogs have been retired instead of
euthanised in the monthly figures they are obliged to provide to the
government, Martins said.
"They are beginning to hide the information. They say 'In April we
euthanised two injured dogs and 16 dogs were retired.'
"But what does 'retired' mean? Retired means they were also killed. There is
no retirement for these dogs.
"The proof of that is that they were unable to give one dog to us. Why?
Because they have no retired dogs alive to give us. We cannot understand how
they can be allowed to kill 30 healthy animals every month."
Martins added: "There are no [animal welfare] laws at all in Macau and this
makes it very difficult.
"But the government is embarrassed with the news coming out of Macau. The
government is very conscious of the image of Macau. They want it to be seen
as a modern town within China, like Hong Kong.
"But what happens at the Canidrome makes a mockery of the idea that Macau is
a modern, civilised town.
"When I meet the chief executive I will tell him the track has to be closed
in 2015, and before then, the number of animals being imported must be
reduced.
"And the number of races has to be reduced, to cut down the number of
injuries to animals."
The Canidrome's land lease, which dates back to its opening in 1963, expires
at the end of 2015, having already been extended for another 10 years in
2005.
The land will then revert to the government.
In a letter sent out to one campaigner protesting over the death of the
greyhounds, Ung Sau Hong, head of the Macau government's Department of Food
and Animal Inspection and Control, said the government was concerned about
the dogs' plight and was urging the Canidrome to "improve the welfare of
retired racing greyhounds".
The letter added: "We believe animal welfare is a core value for a civilised
society."
The Canidrome has repeatedly declined to comment on the issue and failed to
respond to calls and e-mails from the Sunday Morning Post.
Macau dog track backtracks on an adoption program, letters needed nowPLEASE
FORWARD WIDELY TO ALL YOUR GROUPS AND CONTACTS NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL
AND ALL ANTI-GREYHOUND RACING CAMPAIGNERS WORLDWIDE AND ALL
WEBSITES,TWITTER, MYSPACE AND FACEBOOK FOR MAXIMUM PUBLICITY
Macau Canidrome dog track to close within 3 years!?
Latest news on the Macau Canidrome dog track. Please see below. This dog
track has been reported for killing nearly 400 racing greyhounds in 2010.
There has been international pressure from us and other animal welfare
groups around the globe and this is the latest news. The closure of this
death track cannot come quick enough for us but we have to possibly wait
until 2015 now, in betweeen time even more dogs are inevitably going to be
killed there!
Thank you to all those that helped with this campaign
Greyhound Crusaders/SWAP team UK
Canidrome to 'close within three years'
Outcry over slaughter of greyhounds at notorious Macau racetrack will force
government to cancel its lease, says leading animal welfare campaigner
Simon Parry
May 06, 2012
An international campaign against the mass killing of greyhounds at the
Macau Canidrome has embarrassed the city's government and will lead to the
closure of the track within three years, the head of the city's leading
animal welfare group believes.
Albano Martins, chairman of the Society for the Protection of Animals
(ANIMA), expects the Macau government to cancel the controversial venue's
land lease when it expires in 2015 because of growing local and overseas
pressure for the Canidrome to close.
Martins expects to meet Macau chief executive Fernando Chui Sai-on over the
issue later this month and said he would call for the number of greyhounds
imported from Australia to be reduced and for the number of daily races to
be cut to reduce greyhound injuries.
A global campaign by animal welfare groups began last year when a Sunday
Morning Post (SEHK: 0583, announcements, news)investigation revealed how 383
dogs were euthanised in the Canidrome in 2010, most of them healthy and most
aged no more than five or six years old.
Because there is no mechanism for the greyhounds to be adopted after
retirement, all are killed by lethal injection, often for no other reason
than that they are too slow to finish in the top three of the
three-times-a-week races.
Following an outcry, Canidrome bosses met government officials and ANIMA and
agreed to hand over at least one retired greyhound for adoption, Martins
said.
However, the Canidrome reneged on the deal on the day the greyhound was due
to be handed over in April, according to Martins.
There has been no communication between ANIMA and the Canidrome since.
Since the breakdown in talks, the Canidrome has begun to disguise the level
of greyhound deaths by recording that dogs have been retired instead of
euthanised in the monthly figures they are obliged to provide to the
government, Martins said.
"They are beginning to hide the information. They say 'In April we
euthanised two injured dogs and 16 dogs were retired.'
"But what does 'retired' mean? Retired means they were also killed. There is
no retirement for these dogs.
"The proof of that is that they were unable to give one dog to us. Why?
Because they have no retired dogs alive to give us. We cannot understand how
they can be allowed to kill 30 healthy animals every month."
Martins added: "There are no [animal welfare] laws at all in Macau and this
makes it very difficult.
"But the government is embarrassed with the news coming out of Macau. The
government is very conscious of the image of Macau. They want it to be seen
as a modern town within China, like Hong Kong.
"But what happens at the Canidrome makes a mockery of the idea that Macau is
a modern, civilised town.
"When I meet the chief executive I will tell him the track has to be closed
in 2015, and before then, the number of animals being imported must be
reduced.
"And the number of races has to be reduced, to cut down the number of
injuries to animals."
The Canidrome's land lease, which dates back to its opening in 1963, expires
at the end of 2015, having already been extended for another 10 years in
2005.
The land will then revert to the government.
In a letter sent out to one campaigner protesting over the death of the
greyhounds, Ung Sau Hong, head of the Macau government's Department of Food
and Animal Inspection and Control, said the government was concerned about
the dogs' plight and was urging the Canidrome to "improve the welfare of
retired racing greyhounds".
The letter added: "We believe animal welfare is a core value for a civilised
society."
The Canidrome has repeatedly declined to comment on the issue and failed to
respond to calls and e-mails from the Sunday Morning Post.