Barn Owl. Selection of bird photos taken by Alejandro Carnevale in Patagonia.
Animal Day in Argentina is commemorated on April 29 to celebrate all the country’s species and prevent the extinction of many of these. From RIO NEGRO newspaper the proposal is to celebrate it with this selection of photos of incredible birds taken by Alejandro Carnevale in Patagonia. The date remembers the death of Ignacio Lucas Albarracín, one of the pioneers in the fight for animal rights in the country, who helped promote laws and raise people’s awareness about the abuse and exploitation they suffer daily.
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Around the world, International Animal Day is celebrated on October 4, in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi, the Catholic saint who donated his wealth and dedicated his life to service to those who needed it most, a group that included animals.
Ignacio Lucas Albarracín was born on July 31, 1850 in Córdoba and received his law degree from the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the National University of Buenos Aires, in 1873. He was part of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento’s work team, after his presidential mandate.
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He began participating in political campaigns to fight for the rights of living beings, until he was appointed Secretary of the Argentine Society for the Protection of Animals (SAPA), founded in 1879 and in 1885 he presided over it.
One of its most relevant tasks They were actions to end cockfights, bullfights and pigeon shooting. Like many of his colleagues, he was a vegetarian and promoted this style of eating. Likewise, he began to question the tasks carried out in zoos and spoke out against animal shows, which took place mainly in circuses.
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He was a pioneer in Argentina in the defense of animal rights, something unusual in that historical context. His fight for these rights was such that he was the main promoter of the first animal protection law in Argentina, passed in 1891.
He dedicated his entire life to animals and it so happened that he died on April 29, 1926… Yes, on National Animal Day, the one he himself had created.
overo duck alilicucu red spider hawk ruby hummingbird common carancho large-necked swans king’s woodpecker tufted cockerel great grebe great silver-billed divers flamingos condor black-eyed heron white nun diucon pitiayumi cachudito widow-widow black-tailed black-tailed eagle yellow cardinal loica white heron