Environment Warning on Cats / Hand-Feeding Banned

The Deputy for Natural Environment and Biodiversity at the Department of Environment warned about the consequences of hand-feeding animals.

Ambassador Arjan: The Deputy of Natural Environment and Biodiversity of Environmental Protection Organization warned about the consequences of manual feeding of animals.

Hamid Zahrabi, Deputy of Natural Environment and Biodiversity of the Environmental Protection Organization, said about the approach of wildlife to the people's living environment and the habituation of animals to the presence of humans: Our duty in this field is to inform and educate people; Because when people are in the nature, they willfully or unwittingly encounter wildlife and they must know how to treat these animals.

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Referring to the two main factors of getting animals used to humans, he added: the remaining garbage and food waste available to animals, as well as manual feeding of wildlife, are among the most important factors that make animals dependent on human food sources.

The Deputy of Natural Environment and Biodiversity of the Environmental Protection Organization emphasized the necessity of people's participation in preventing this process and said: Dealing with this issue requires serious information, education and participation of the people. Especially people who use nature continuously, such as mountaineers and nature walkers, should be careful not to accustom animals to receive food from humans by hand feeding.

Referring to the increase in the population of urban cats, Zoharabi stated: the increase in the population of these species is another environmental issue that can cause serious damage to biodiversity, and this is unrelated to feeding urban cats; is not

He emphasized the need to improve human behavior in dealing with wildlife and demanded that people pay more attention to how to dispose of food waste and refrain from hand-feeding animals in the wild.