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 thrust back folks torturing and killing animals underneath the quilt of darkness, Councilwoman Joann Ariola (R-Queens) introduced.
NPS spokeswoman Daphne Yun stated the company would additionally present extra parks police patrol within the space, the place animal rescuers stated a minimum of eight animals had been discovered lifeless or maimed since late July.
These have included 5 wounded pigs, a near-dead child rat stuffed in a bag with rooster bones, and a canine carcass with its neck snapped.
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 stated.
“I’ve gotten in contact with my companions at each the federal and metropolis stage, and we’re going to convey a brand new stage 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 cause. This ends now.”
Sloane Quealy, president of Zion’s Mission Animal Rescue, known as the extra enforcement sources a “nice first step,” however known as for extra patrols.
“Till then we’re going to do 12 a.m. to six a.m., we’re going to stroll the seashore, simply to see about interrupting something that’s happening,” she stated.