{"id":148864,"date":"2015-08-13T02:49:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T21:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=148864"},"modified":"2015-08-13T03:40:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T22:10:43","slug":"sri-lankan-political-parties-urged-to-include-animal-welfare-in-2015-general-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lankan-political-parties-urged-to-include-animal-welfare-in-2015-general-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan Political Parties Urged To Include Animal Welfare In 2015 General Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Animal Welfare Coalition of Sri Lanka presented a pledge on Animal Welfare to all political parties in Sri Lanka and urged them to promote animal welfare in the country. The pledge was submitted in the wake of growing number of incidents of animal cruelty issues reported in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_144947\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Vositha-Wijenayake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144947\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-144947\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Vositha-Wijenayake-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Vositha Wijenayake\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Vositha-Wijenayake-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Vositha-Wijenayake-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Vositha-Wijenayake-800x807.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Vositha-Wijenayake.jpg 818w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-144947\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vositha Wijenayake<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Animal Welfare Coalition urged the parliamentarians to pass and implement the bill on animal welfare, prevent animal cruelty in Sri Lanka and collaborate with organisations working on animal welfare.<\/p>\n<p>Animal Welfare Coalition Convenor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Vositha+Wijenayake&amp;x=9&amp;y=2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Vositha Wijenayake<\/span><\/a> called for collective support from all political parties and said, \u201cWe believe that a pledge can establish a higher animal welfare standard in the country. The public is largely aware of animal welfare as a crucial issue and we urge all political groups to firmly engage and take a progressive stand in safeguarding the welfare of animals in Sri Lanka.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka has numerous animal protection organisations working on rabies vaccination, sheltering stray dogs, elephant protection, mitigating the human elephant conflict and caring for domestic animals.<\/p>\n<p>The Animal Welfare Coalition becomes an important initiative as it promotes animal welfare, creates awareness on cruelty to animals, ensures the enactment of the animal welfare bill and upon having done so, to conduct trainings for practitioners of law and effective implementation of law.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ganga de Silva, Director Operations of Blue Paw Trust said, \u201cAnimal abuse is an indicator of serious problems and animal cruelty incidents should not be ignored. It has been proved that those who commit acts of animal cruelty have led to other crimes like violence against people, property crimes and drug or disorderly conduct offences. It is imperative that Sri Lanka has a robust animal welfare legislation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President of Sathva Mithra, Sagarika Rajakarunanayake said, \u201cIt is time we focus on the protection and the welfare of animals in the country. This is a cause that needs to be prioritised, and the politicians need to act in order to ensure that cruelty to animals is prevented. This is crucial as compassion to all beings is part of our culture.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":144947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6980,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-sri-lanka-parliamentary-elections-2015","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sri Lankan Political Parties Urged To Include Animal Welfare In 2015 General Elections - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lankan-political-parties-urged-to-include-animal-welfare-in-2015-general-elections\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sri Lankan Political Parties Urged To Include Animal Welfare In 2015 General Elections - 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