Document type: article published in Tahitinews.co
Author: S. Antonin
Preview: French Polynesia's Animal Welfare Grants Awarding Committee (CASE) has just approved the award of grants totalling 62,655,000 F CFP to associations supporting animal welfare. The ad-hoc committee's task was to examine the dossiers submitted by the associations and evaluate them against government objectives. In line with these, funding could be awarded to projects involving the sterilization of stray and stray dogs, or those belonging to families with limited resources; the euthanasia or placement of litters of ownerless newborns; the euthanasia of animals in a state of physiological or dangerous distress; the systematic identification of animals belonging to families with limited resources; and awareness-raising and communication campaigns promoting animal welfare.
(...) These projects will now have to be approved by the budgetary and financial control commission of the Assembly of French Polynesia (APF) and then by the Council of Ministers. The Minister took advantage of this meeting to discuss with the DIREN and the members of the Assembly the upcoming deadlines in terms of animal welfare. In particular, he pointed out that the Advisory Committee for animal welfare would shortly be called upon to give its opinion on the decree concerning the organization of campaigns to manage domestic carnivore populations. Among other things, this decree will enable associations to call on foreign volunteer vets when local vets are unable to offer suitable rates for campaigns financed by the country. Other avenues of work will of course be submitted to this advisory committee, made up of representatives of the member countries, the French State, local authorities and associations.
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