Prague, Dec 10 (CTK) – Two heated vehicles with air conditioning for the transport of injured animals worth one million crowns were handed to the Prague municipal rescue station for animals living in the wild by Prague town councillor Jana Plaminkova on Wednesday, daily Pravo writes yesterday.
Plaminkova promised a large rescue station will be built in Prague-Jinonice.
The Prague station admits some 3000 animals, most of them with serious injuries, annually. One third of the injuries are caused by cars and other traffic participants, one third of the “patients” suffer injuries when hitting the windows of houses or electric lines, and the rest are bit by dogs and cats, Pravo writes.
“We cure them and if possible, we release them back into the wild. The treatment success rate is some 60 percent,” Zuzana Pokorna, from the station, told Pravo.
The animals that cannot be released into the wild live in forest zoos and other places in Prague. People can see there a Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx), a common raven (Corvus corax), a stag with hinds and others, Pravo writes.
Vladimir Krchov, director of the municipal forests, said it is not known how many wild animals live on the territory of Prague. He said a herd of some 100 moufflons lives in a forest in Prague´s 4th district.
Food thrown to containers attracts wild boars, Pravo writes.
($1=24.688 crowns)
