BAWA rushes to save animals beneath clouds of hot ash UBUD, Bali, Indonesia––More than 4.2 million people, 350,000 dogs, and perhaps a million other animals from monkeys and chickens to goats and cattle, plus wildlife, are looking over their shoulders at a 30,000-foot column of steam, smoke, and ash boiling out of Mount Agung. […]
Bali better at handling farting goats (or sheep) than canine rabies
Gaseous ovines gone in hours; rabies outbreak still killing after seven years DENPASAR, Bali, Indonesia––An animal welfare issue in Bali made global headlines on November 4, 2015, but it wasn’t the ongoing mishandling of a canine rabies outbreak by the Made Mangku Pastika gubernatorial regime that has frustrated control efforts since 2008, at cost of […]
Bali governor Pastika invites public to kill dogs
DENPASAR, Bali, Indonesia––Raged Bali governor Made Mangku Pastika on January 31, 2015, seven years into the most badly bungled rabies control program of the 21st century, “There’s so much rabies. Our money has been depleted just to purchase rabies vaccine. Please help. If you see a free-roaming feral dog just kill it––eliminate it! Don’t allow […]
How BAWA beat the dog-cullers in one Bali banjar
GIANYAR, Bali, Indonesia––The Bali Animal Welfare Association on July 3, 2014 claimed a small victory for vaccinating dogs against rabies and educating the public in Singapadu Tengah village, Gianyar regency, Bali. Responding to a June 26, 2014 directive from Bali governor Made Mangku Pastika, public officials “were scheduled to eliminate stray dogs in the […]
Political foes close Bali Animal Welfare Association
UBUD, Bali, Indonesia––The Bali Animal Welfare Association was on September 30, 2013 closed by police for allegedly operating without permits, apparently following complaints from veterinarians about competition from the BAWA street dog clinic. “Our ambulance and spay/neuter team are not allowed to work until we get the clinic permit, which will take a few […]
BAWA achieves Bali rabies turnaround
UBUD, Bali, Indonesia–Vaccinating 210,000 dogs in the six months ending on March 31, 2011, the Bali Animal Welfare Association achieved a 48% reduction in human rabies deaths and a 45% decrease in dog rabies cases. This was the fastest containment of a rabies outbreak in the history of Indonesia, achieved even as a 13-year-old outbreak continues in Flores, where […]
Bali animal welfare societies battle rabies outbreak
DENPASAR, Bali––Someone brought a rabid dog to Bali. Yachting, fishing, or trading goods, the culprit apparently came by boat, docking near Ungasan village, where about 170 families live on a peninsula forming the southernmost part of Bali. The rabid dog arrived at about the same time that more than 200 animal advocates from nearly […]