Born Free Foundation's response re Massacre of Homeless Dogs Underway by Ethiopian Wolf Conservation

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Merritt Clifton <anmlpepl

Born Free's form response re shooting of dogs in Ethiopia

 

It is good news that the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation

Programme has now stopped the dog-shooting and is finally beginning

to do the obvious and vaccinate the wolves. Using Raboral to

vaccinate the local foxes and jackals would further help to eliminate

canine rabies from the area.

If 80% of the dogs around Bale National Park really were

vaccinated, the odds are that the current outbreak did not arrive

through the dogs in the first place.

The e-mails from the Homeless Animals Protection Society of

Ethiopia and the report co-signed by EWCP veterinarian Zelalem

Tefera, however, confirm that dogs were being shot under the

direction of the EWCP and that this was central to the rabies control

strategy proposed from the field by the EWCP as of October 20.

--Merritt Clifton, editor, ANIMAL PEOPLE.

 

 

 

 

>I apologize for the empty forwarded messages without text. The reply (from

>Alison) was scanned. I have copied the reply regarding the

>e-mail of killing of dogs in Ethiopia.

>

>--------

>Dear Patricia

>

>Thanks for your email about the dogs in Ethiopia.

>

>Since 1998 the The Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme EWCP ( supported by

>BFF) has been vaccinating domestic dogs in or around the Bale Mountains

>National Park to prevent rabies and other canine diseases. Current vaccination

>coverage of domestic dogs exceeds 80%.Contrary to what has been

>suggested in recent

>emails, the EWCP and Born Free have no involvement whatsoever with any

>current or planned destruction of domestic dogs in Bale

>

>EWCP is actively involved in containing an epidemic of rabies affecting

>Ethiopian wolves in the Bale Mountains National Park. Technical

>preparations for a

>wolf vaccination campaign are advanced, and capture and vaccination of wolves

>in selected areas of Bale will start once the Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation

>Organisation authorizes the operation.

>

>Intervention will involve trapping and handling of wolves in areas adjacent

>to those worst affected by the epidemic, and administration of a parenteral

>(injectable) rabies vaccine. The vaccination campaign has been designed in

>cooperation with the IUCN/SSC Canid Specialist and Veterinary

>Specialist Groups,

>and several epidemiology/rabies experts from USA, South Africa,

>Tanzania, UK and

>France.

>

>Hope this information helps.

>

>best wishes

>Alison

 

 

 

 

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