Infrastructures for Human - non human cohabitation

We have been constantly affected by the rising cases of human-canine conflicts in Kerala. Our friends who work with canines find that inter-species miscommunication and misunderstanding is at the core of this conflict. Unscientific disposal of food waste on streets being another reason for these rising conflicts.

This is a proposal we prepared alongside NGO Hands for Paws and with inputs from Volunteers of PFA to develop a model infrastructure at the neighbourhood level in Trivandrum City. Designed in the model of a recreational space, the infrastructure adopts a cooperative structure of public private partnership. The local government could initiate this infrastructure by identifying unused, unoccupied private or public land in the city's neighbourhoods. The land could be taken on lease or on rent and the infrastructure could be operated and run by the resident associations themselves. Services of Kudumbasree could be used to collect food waste from the neighbourhood, feeding strays, running the cafeteria, providing care for abandoned puppies and medical care.

The park will be a pet friendly zone and will turn into a space for socialisation for both human and non humans. The different components ( Cafe, Amphitheatre, wellness centre, puppy pen etc.) in this neighbourhood infrastructure could be chosen based on the availability of land.

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