Massacre of Homeless Dogs Underway by Ethiopian Wolf Conservationists

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International support is needed by the Homeless Animals Protection

Society of Ethiopia to stop a massacre of dogs being conducted by

" conservationists " in a purported attempt to stop a rabies epidemic

among the endangered Ethiopian wolves, which would never have gotten

started if the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme had only

vaccinated the wolves with oral rabies vaccine (which could and

should have been done several years ago). Instead, to cover their

own failure to protect the wolves, dogs in the area of Bale National

Park are being murdered by these " conservationists " and/or their

agents. Dogs are being shot in front of the humane education office

of HAPS, obviously to intimidate them, as they were the first to

alert the international animal protection community to the presence

of disease among the wolves and to speak out against the massacre of

the dogs. The Born Free Foundation is funding the Ethiopian Wolf

Conservation Programme along with the World Wildlife Fund and the

IUCN.

--Kim Bartlett, publisher of ANIMAL PEOPLE Newspaper

 

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" Homeless Animals Protection Society " <haps-eth

Getting an international support

Tuesday, 04 Nov 2003 01:25:52 +0300

 

Our Dearest Kim,

 

We did not go back to Dinsho since yesterday. We waited for

the response from the people who decided to kill the dogs as

a solution for the disease outbreak among the endangered

Ethiopian wolves, but no one responded and

they have continued shooting dogs every where.

 

What makes us very sad and sick is that they have also

started shooting dogs in front of our branch office where we

started humane education and got supporters of our idea from the

local community, especially the children.

 

This is done by the third group purposely to let our head

down and lose hope because they are upset that we informed the

issue to the world.

 

We do not know how we can inform the international community

to stop this.

 

Please advise!

 

Love

Efrem & Hana

cofounders of the Homeless Animals Protection Society of Ethiopia

<haps-eth

 

 

--

Kim Bartlett, Publisher of ANIMAL PEOPLE Newspaper

Postal mailing address: P.O. Box 960, Clinton WA 98236 U.S.A.

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Something to think about: We believe that the Golden Rule

applies to animals, too. We don't accept the prevailing notion

that " people come first' " or that " people are more important than

animals. " Animals feel pain and suffer just as we do, and it is

almost always humans making animals suffer and not the other way

around. Yet in spite of how cruelly people behave towards animals

-- not to mention human cruelty to other humans -- we are supposed to

believe that humans are superior to other animals. If people want

to fancy themselves as being of greater moral worth than the other

lifeforms on this earth, we should begin behaving better than they

do, and not worse. Let's start treating everyone as we would like

to be treated ourselves.