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Along the Amersfoort channels in the Netherlands are hundreds of small wooden stairs leading from the water and on the shores.
These special steps were installed as part of the initiative to protect wildlife, which sometimes falls into the water and cannot get out of high sides.
Now Amsterdam seeks to create similar ways of escape for his little creatures.
Until now, 19 cats have been drowned on city channels, a statistical element that prompted the local PVDD animal party to offer an example from the Amersfoot book.
Now Amsterdam’s advisers voted to spend 100,000 euros to make water streets safer for animals.
Amsterdam will set the escape routes from cat channels
In June of this year, Astasphora, in the province of Utrecht, announced that she was installing 300 exit stairs along its water streets to avoid drowning wildlife.
Now Amsterdam agreed to ask the organization of the animals of Dyrenbulyans to determine the points where cats And other creatures most often cannot avoid water along its channels.
The Council will use this information to select locations for new escape routes.
According to the Dutch news site Parool, the head for Animal protection The city of Zita Pels has already advocated such a plan, but abandoned the idea of lack of resources.
PVDD, however, emphasized that his budget contains 100,000 euros in his budgetwildlife “, allowing the plan to get a green light.
14 people die on Amsterdam’s channels annually
Cats can accidentally get into the channels when they are scared, said Maggie Rutenberg from the Katten Kenniscentrum information center in the Dutch newspaper VolkSkrant.
Although cats They can swim, quickly run out, because their hair is born with water. “The staircase can really save them lifeThis is enough to be enough, ”she said.
Official data also show that annually about 14 people are drowning annually on Amsterdam channels.
In the period from 2014 to 2024, 142 people died on the water streets of the city, many of which foreign tourists who fell when they were drunk or under the influence of drugs.
In some parts of the city, repaired channels were equipped with special ledges from which can be preserved if they are trying to get out of the water.