The Park of the Kingdoms of the House of Light on the Hill, affiliated to the Fraternidade – International Humanitarian Federation, received four horses this week, coming from Paquetá, a tourist island of the city of Rio de Janeiro, located in the Guanabara bay. They were rescued by people who dedicate themselves to animal protection in the carioca capital.
With support of the Municipality, they reached an agreement with the owners of the horses, who had been utilizing them to pull carts used as transportation of tourists in the island. The local authority replaced the animal-pulled carts, known as ‘mateus’, by electric carts. Thus, those who used to profit by transporting tourists pulled by those horses will not lose the source of their income. This is what reported Mene, responsible for the Park of the Kingdoms.
‘It is about four male horses that came from the state of Rio de Janeiro, and were rescued because they were being used inadequately to pull carts, they had no conditions to endure this task anymore, according to the protectors who rescued them, they were suffering under a slave regime’, said Mene.
He explained that these horses are recovering from a long trip that took more than 12 hours – they arrived at the Park of the Kingdoms last Monday night – and from no won they will be part of the group of permanent animals of the House of Light on the Hill and of the Community-of-Light of Figueira. These representatives of the Animal Kingdom received the first cares and were castrated in Rio de Janeiro, in a joint action of the group of protectors and the Municipality.
Last May, the Community-of-Light of Nova Terra, located in the rural area of Teresópolis, state of Rio de Janeiro, and affiliated to the Fraternidade – International Humanitarian Federation, also received and sheltered 20 manumitted horses from the island of Paquetá. These exemplars are nowadays under the cares of the youths of the community-of-light and of other volunteers.
