A total of 40 associations have met with the Deputy of the Common, Rafael Yanes, to request the creation of a Canarian Institute of Animal Welfare and Protection as a "hand that executes and coordinates" the "current chaos" and the management of subsidies with an "economic strategic plan to make active policies in animal protection".
Yanes met with the founder of the Platform against Animal Abuse in the Canary Islands, Dácil Darias, the president of the Animal Protection Association 'Sano y A Salvo', Lylyam Cabañas, and the president of the Association for the Defense and Protection of Animals in the Canary Islands (ADEPAC), Yahaira Tovar.
The president of the Federation of Associations United for Animal Defense (FAUDA), María Cazorla Betancor, the vice president of the Association for Defense against Animal Abuse in Lanzarote (ADEMAL), Ana Isabel Díaz, the founder of the 'Kikechi' project for animal welfare and the unification of animal shelters in Lanzarote, Ana Belén Domínguez, and with the co-founder of the project of the future Insular Center for Education and Animal Welfare of Lanzarote (CIEBA), Ruymán Duarte, also attended telematically.
The meeting also served to address the proposed Animal Welfare Law for the Canary Islands and the proposals contributed to this draft Law by various associations.
Thus, although they stated that the draft law contemplates an Autonomous Council for Animal Welfare to decide on the strategic lines of subsidies, among other aspects, they consider a figure that executes these plans and supports and centralizes the activity to be fundamental.
Those affected filed a complaint with the Deputy of the Common to request the acceptance of this body in the new Animal Welfare Law for the Canary Islands.
Yanes stated that "the creation of this institute would focus the activity and, above all, the budget of the Autonomous Community in the area of animal welfare, in which these groups from the archipelago would directly participate".
