2023-06-09 13:36:03
The request arises from the repeated blows of a camel driver to a young dromedary so that it can stand up with the load of two men.
The Franz Weber Foundation, an international conservation organization, has urged the authorities to put an end to one of Lanzarote’s tourist references, the camel ridesand values presenting a complaint to the Ministry of Ecological Transition for the treatment that some of these animals receive in the Timanfaya National Park.
This foundation thus comes out of a video widely disseminated this week on social networks, in which a camel driver repeatedly beating a very young dromedary specimen so that he stands up with the person he is carrying, whose weight exceeds him, in the face of his attempts to lie down on the ground.
“The images, recorded by a tourist and which have become viral on social networks with hundreds of thousands of viewsthey create a terrible picture of Lanzarote because of a minority sector determined to continue exploiting mammals as a proposal for tourism national and international”, warns the NGO.
The Franz Weber Foundation, which bears the name of the famous Swiss environmental activist who created it in 1975, already denounced two years ago “the important deficiencies” it perceived in the welfare of camels in Lanzarote, “with a forceful veterinary report warning about their living conditions, long days of transport to which they are subjected and the incidents that occur”.
In that document he detailed “excessive loads of peopledangerous pressure on the joints of the dromedaries during transit, as well as the harmful use of wire muzzles or the absence of water”and concluded that the situation was “deficient” and caused physical problems for the animals.
alternative proposals
“However, even as a result of the viral images, no administration has taken notice in three years, which is why the naturalists urge the Cabildo (of Lanzarote) and municipalities in the area to work now on alternative proposals in the recreational transport of tourists , which will go through a program to improve companies and labor guarantees that make possible a reconversion of the sector”, now adds the Foundation.
In another statement, the Canarian Camel Breeders Association expresses “his deep response” for the behavior observed in the images of mistreatment of an animal that have gone viral this week, but he defends that it is about “an isolated performance”.
“This is an action that we unanimously condemn from our Association. In no way does this action represent the camel drivers of the Canary Islands. We want to clarify that these events are isolated and this treatment is in no case a common practice in handling these animals. We are sure that something similar will not happen again,” says the Breeders Association.
This group emphasizes that “it works every day for the protection of this species” and is “on the side of those who defend nature”, so its approach is to use camels in an offer of “responsible leisure” with its standards of wellness.
“It is the Yaiza City Council -where the events denounced in the video occurred- that must be in charge of possible sanctions, the one that must ensure animal welfare and that this type of practice is not carried out in its area, although from the Association we maintain a control for the maintenance of these standards of care and protection”, he considers.
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