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ARGENTINA - Buenos Aires - Poisoning of animals on behalf of the tourist industry

NB...THE ADDRESSES THAT DIDN'T WORK HAVE

NOW BEEN REPAIRED...ALL OF THESE OFFICES ARE BEING

FLODDED WITH MAIL, AND SO SOME MAY BE RETURNED.

President of Argentina

Email: WEBMASTER @ PRESIDENCIA.GOV.AR (remove 2 spaces)

 

The ones who are promoting this massacre for the sake of tourism are:

Mayor of Ushuaia: Ingeniero Jorge A.Garramuño:

Email: ushuaiaprensa @ infovia.com.ar (remove 2 spaces)

 

Secretary of the town hall: Hector A. Stefani

Some weeks ago one of the animal advocates from another province phoned Mr Hector Stefani (general secretary of the town hall - stefanihector @ hotmail.com ) (remove 2 spaces) and asked why he was doing such a horrible thing to poor defenseless animals, and in a very sardonic way, Mr Stefani invited the animal advocate to join him in the killing, and hung up.

 

Secretary of the Tourism of Ushuaia

Email: muniush @ tierradelfuego.org.ar (remove 2 spaces)

 

Board of lagislators:

Email: cdprensa @ infovia.com.ar (remove 2 spaces)

 

Government of the province of Tierra del Fuego:

Email: ceremonial @ tierradelfuego.org.ar (remove 2 spaces)

 

tourist agency:

Email: finmundo @ tierradelfuego.org.ar (remove 2 spaces)

 

official airlane:

Email: info @ aerolineasargentinas.com (remove 2 spaces)

 

Mayor of Rio Grande: Ingeniero Jorge Martín:

Telephone: +54-2964-420-394

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ministry of Tourism

Email: info @ turismo.gov.ar (remove 2 spaces)

 

Permanent Mission of Argentina to the United Nations

Email: argentina @ un.int (remove 2 spaces)

 

Secretariat of Culture & Communication

Email: info @ correocultura.gov.ar (remove 2 spaces)

 

Secretaria de Turismo de la Provincia de Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur

Maipú 505 - (9410) Ushuaia - Tel.: +54 (2901) 423340 / 421423 Fax.430694

E-mail: info @ tierradelfuego.org.ar (remove 2 spaces)

 

official airlane:

E-mail: info @ aerolineasargentinas.com (remove 2 spaces)

 

tourist agency:

E-mail: finmundo @ tierradelfuego.org.ar (remove 2 spaces)

 

Government of the province of Tierra del Fuego:

E-mail: ceremonial @ tierradelfuego.org.ar (remove 2 spaces)

 

Board of lagislators:

E-mail: cdprensa @ infovia.com.ar (remove 2 spaces)

 

Secretary of the Tourism of Ushuaia

Email: muniush @ tierradelfuego.org.ar (remove 2 spaces)

PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION AT:

http://www.petitiononline.com/ma1c2347/petition.html

Visit Canadian Voice for Animals at:

http://www.canadianvoiceforanimals.org/Argentina.html

 

Letter sent to the President and other relevant Argentine authorities

 

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ARGENTINA - Poisoning of animals on behalf of the tourist industry in Buenos Aires

To The President of Argentina

June 24, 2004

Dear Mr. President,

I am aware of the current poisoning campaign aimed at stray animals on behalf of the Argentine tourist industry. We pity the small minority of tourists who hate animals. These unfriendly people are not able to recognize dogs and cats as a peaceful and natural part of civilization. With that handicap they probably are not able to value their own society, let alone your culture anyway. Although you are better off without such guests, we never heard that animal haters stayed away from tourist spots where stray animals are treated well. On the contrary, most tourists love animals and they enjoy a meeting with a wandering dog or cat. And when you worry about health risks for your beloved tourists, you should rather fear people for spreading diseases than stray animals.

If however you want to control the amount of stray animals we strongly object to poisoning, as this "method" is extremely painful, cruel and indiscriminative. In a stealthy way strays, pets, cattle, protected animals and people fall victim to this most disgusting and degrading way of killing. You may never have seen the horrible sequence of unrest, panic, vomiting, bleeding, spasms, suffocating and final resignation of a poisoned animal. You may have no idea of the agony of the victims or the emotional impact on people who see (their own) animals die this way. We saw the outrage and grief of guests watching 30 animals die around their Tunisian hotel one sunny day in 1985. In effect these witnesses vowed never to return to that country. So it is better to realise that poisoning can strongly backfire on your tourist program.

Stray animals become a problem when they multiply freely and consequently sterilization is the solution. Killing is not a solution as other freely multiplying stray animals will fill the gap at the feeding places. We advise you to control that problem with a "vaccinate, spay, neuter and release" program that returns healthy sterilized stray animals to the spot where they were collected. This way they will keep other strays away and stop multiplying. In short, such a campaign will give you a long term solution to the problem. We realise that such campaigns require a plan, adequate veterinarian care and a proper budget. We also realise that poisoning is cheap and effective on the short term.

And we know for sure that people should not treat their " best friend" the dog so badly. Their loyalty, gentleness and unwavering trust in men is unprecedented. They deserve our protection rather than our cruelty. In our view economic motives should never lead to any form of cruelty. Please be aware that cruelty towards animals evokes cruelty towards people as well. We are not informed on the existence of Argentine animal protection laws. If they exist, as we expect from any civilized country, they should not be violated. For these reasons we urge you to stop poisoning campaigns in Buenos Aires or anywhere else in Argentine immediately.

Yours truly,

Your Name

Your address

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Hanging Dog at Entrance to Resort

Sign the petition at: http://www.petitiononline.com/ma1c2347/petition.html

Visit Canadian Voice for Animals at: http://www.canadianvoiceforanimals.org/Argentina.html

 

 

 

 

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