Metropolis and federal parks authorities are beefing up sources close to Jamaica Bay in Queens following The Submit’s expose final week of surging animal sacrifices within the space.
The Nationwide Parks Service promised to put in a pair of cellular lights by the Addabbo Bridge within the federally-managed Spring Creek Park to push back individuals torturing and killing animals beneath the quilt of darkness, Councilwoman Joann Ariola (R-Queens) introduced.
NPS spokeswoman Daphne Yun mentioned the company would additionally present extra parks police patrol within the space, the place animal rescuers mentioned at the very least eight animals had been discovered useless or maimed since late July.
These have included 5 wounded pigs, a near-dead child rat stuffed in a bag with hen bones, and a canine carcass with its neck snapped.
The town’s Parks Division additionally pledged to extend in a single day patrols in Sundown Cove Park, Broad Channel, the place ugly animal stays even have been discovered, Ariola’s workplace mentioned.
“I’ve gotten in contact with my companions at each the federal and metropolis degree, and we’re going to deliver a brand new degree of enforcement to the world and actually crack down on this sickening habits,” Ariola advised The Submit. “Animals shouldn’t be getting tortured and mutilated for any purpose. This ends now.”
Sloane Quealy, president of Zion’s Mission Animal Rescue, referred to as the extra enforcement sources a “nice first step,” however referred to as for extra patrols.
“Till then we’re going to do 12 a.m. to six a.m., we’re going to stroll the seaside, simply to see about interrupting something that’s occurring,” she mentioned.
