OSAKA, Apr 24 (News On Japan) –
Osaka City has issued an administrative order to cease feeding pigeons and crows following steady complaints about droppings and noise.
For over a decade, some residents across the space stretching from JR Abikocho Station to Osaka Metro Nagai Station in Sumiyoshi Ward have been feeding pigeons and crows. Over the previous three years, the Sumiyoshi Ward workplace has acquired roughly 160 complaints regarding foul odors from droppings and noise from the birds’ calls. The metropolis has beforehand tried to deal with these points by advising and recommending these feeding the birds to cease, primarily based on the Animal Welfare Act.
However, because the feeding continued, town took a extra stringent measure on the seventeenth by issuing an order to not feed the birds, marking a big administrative motion. This order carries the heaviest penalties beneath the executive regulation, with fines as much as 500,000 yen for non-compliance. This can be the primary time in Japan that penalties for violating the Animal Welfare Act would apply to the feeding of pigeons and different birds.
Source: YOMIURI