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OTTAWA'S ROYAL SWANS TO BE SET FREE
Chris Roberts (Canadian Broadcast Corporation)
September 12, 2006
After spending the summer, like this swan at the Leitrim Road facility, enclosed in pens to protect them from possible Avian flu infection, Ottawa's swans will experience freedom next year.
Ottawa's royal swans will be set free
next spring, city officials have decided.
The city's 12 mute swans, which usually spend the summer in the waters of the Rideau River, were quarantined in pens this year because city officials were afraid the swans might contract avian flu from wild birds.
But next spring, the swans will either be released in Ottawa or sent to another city, said city councillor Rick Chiarelli, who has been campaigning for the swans' release.
Ottawa's royal swans are descendants of birds given to the city as a gift by Queen Elizabeth in honour of Canada's 100th birthday.
The decision to keep the birds penned year-round prompted an outcry from the Ottawa Royal Swan Coalition, made up of several animal advocacy groups such as Wildlife Ontario. The coalition refers to the holding facility as "Swantanamo Bay," alluding to the U.S.'s Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba.
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Chris Roberts (Canadian Broadcast Corporation)
September 12, 2006
After spending the summer, like this swan at the Leitrim Road facility, enclosed in pens to protect them from possible Avian flu infection, Ottawa's swans will experience freedom next year.
Ottawa's royal swans will be set free
next spring, city officials have decided.
The city's 12 mute swans, which usually spend the summer in the waters of the Rideau River, were quarantined in pens this year because city officials were afraid the swans might contract avian flu from wild birds.
But next spring, the swans will either be released in Ottawa or sent to another city, said city councillor Rick Chiarelli, who has been campaigning for the swans' release.
Ottawa's royal swans are descendants of birds given to the city as a gift by Queen Elizabeth in honour of Canada's 100th birthday.
The decision to keep the birds penned year-round prompted an outcry from the Ottawa Royal Swan Coalition, made up of several animal advocacy groups such as Wildlife Ontario. The coalition refers to the holding facility as "Swantanamo Bay," alluding to the U.S.'s Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba.
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