🐈⬛ Cat lovers(&all animal lovers) around the world, please support 🐾˚ ༘♡ ⋆｡˚
Hello, animal lovers♡ I'm Aya, a guardian of 6 cats.
Let me share the problem about cats occuring in Japan.
According to Animal Acution Fund (公益財団法人どうぶつ基金), currently, in Japan, the Ministry of the Environment is trying to designate Ieneko (domestic cats and stray cats in the neighborhood) as "alien species to promote control".
Despite the lack of evidence that cats are causing the decline of rare native species, the government is trying to easily kill cats under the pretext of a World Heritage Site (especially in Okinawa and Amami).
The target includes not only stray cats, but also TNR cats and cats that go outside.
Even the cats kept entirely indoors, it become subject to extermination if they escape outside.
To begin with, cats are animals that cannot be designated as "Specified Invasive Alien Species."
Ieneko(domestic cat) is an animal that has lived with people in Japan for 2,000 years.
The Ministry of the Environment itself explains that the measures against alien species are mainly "living things brought in after 1868", so this does not apply to cats.
It is wrong thing animals that have lived with humans for 2000 years as targets for extermination.
Protecting rare native species is important, but the lives of cats are just as precious.
It should be carried out through this humanitarian and scientific method, not by taking lives.
It is wrong to blame specific animals for the ecosystems and nature that humans have destroyed.
There are no borders for cat (&animal) lovers. Please sign and convey your voice against it.
Thank you for your kindness to read this long post.
♡ from Tokyo, Aya & 6 ex stray cats.
イエネコを「防除推進外来種」にしないよう、環境大臣に求めます 公益財団法人どうぶつ基金
