La fauna urbana en el régimen jurídico ecuatoriano

Abstract

The protection of animal rights has been a social struggle in some countries of the world such as Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Chile, Argentina, Canada, etc. Ecuador is no exception in regulations that regulate the coexistence of the human with nature and all the elements that compose it. Given this, the development of this titling work was born, in order to diagnose the current situation of the Ecuadorian legal regime reforming that protects the rights of urban fauna. For which a mixed approach methodology is developed, that is, qualitative and at the same time quantitative; through a descriptive exploratory scope; and providing the availability to collect primary information, that is, through the use of the survey technique and the interview technique; at the same time as obtaining secondary information through a documentary bibliographic research. The results obtained by the interviews with public and private figures involved in the issue of urban fauna as and the surveys to different people who own a pet, it was possible to know the different positions, example of that, the legal basis of the reform to the COIP in the issue of urban fauna was evidenced, which was the reason for updating ordinances by the different provincial and municipal governments of Ecuador, in the same way, new protection, adoption and rescue programs are activated by different non-governmental groups that defend the rights of animals in defense of the issue. The participants in the fight against animal cruelty agree that it is a social struggle, that the state must be the protagonist, but they differ that the current law is still far from effectively protecting within the Ecuadorian courts given that today the system has been changed in order to have justice, which the creators of the law in the National Assembly believe to change from a complaint to a complaint that will clear the saturated public judicial system.