{"id":17706,"date":"2023-11-22T17:27:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T16:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chaire-bea.ix-dev.eu\/urban-animal-welfare\/"},"modified":"2024-09-27T10:38:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T08:38:34","slug":"urban-animal-welfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chaire-bea.vetagro-sup.fr\/en\/urban-animal-welfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban animal welfare"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Animals are everywhere<\/strong>, even in highly urbanized areas<\/strong>! Some may be domesticated<\/strong> (like cats and dogs), but others are not and live with us<\/strong> and sometimes even off us<\/strong>: pigeons, coypu, sparrows, foxes, surmulots, etc. As they are not protected species or domesticated, they are not necessarily protected by law<\/strong>. They are even sometimes considered as “harmful<\/strong>” (although French law no longer uses the term and refers instead to “animals likely to cause damage”). Because urban animals are often seen as undesirable<\/strong>, especially when their population is high<\/strong>, cities implement campaigns to reduce their numbers<\/strong> (recuperation of stray cats, gassing of pigeons, poisoning of surmulots, trapping of foxes or coypu, etc.).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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This competition for space<\/strong> between humans and animals in cities, and the question of how to take their welfare into account<\/strong> when managing their populations, is an increasingly debated issue, and one that research is taking up. We interviewed Ciska De Ruyver,<\/strong> a researcher in animal ethics, who is currently leading a research project on urban animals<\/strong>, focusing on foxes, cats, dogs and pigeons. She stresses the need to make city-dwellers more aware of the presence and behavior<\/strong> of urban animals, so as to ensure a better cohabitation.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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In this project, we base ourselves on the animals’ point of view, not on what we, as humans, consider to be a good way of living together. [avec eux]<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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