巴基斯坦政府捕殺流浪狗 屍體遍佈街頭
Laid out in the hot sun after being killed and then dumped in a rubbish pile, these are the stray dogs of Karachi which have been rounded up and culled.
近日，在巴基斯坦卡拉奇市，無數流浪狗被圍捕、撲殺，丟到烈日下的垃圾堆上。Municipal workers were seen laying out the bodies of the dead animals on the road after they were killed. They were then thrown and dumped into a truck ready for them to be taken away and be disposed of.
有人看到市政工人把流浪狗屍體放到馬路上。然後這些流浪狗的屍體就會被裝上卡車，拉走進行無害化處理。It comes after they were rounded up and exterminated after being classed as strays after being found wandering the streets. The increasing number of unwanted dogs in Karachi prompted the city officials to act and they decided to launch the culling campaign.
在被確認是街上游蕩的流浪狗之後，這些狗就會被圍捕和撲殺。流浪狗的數量越來越多，促使當地官員決定開展圍捕行動。
The campaign follows a similar scheme in Lahore, where stray dogs are culled in order to keep citizens safe from dog biting incidents.
拉合爾市也開展了類似的清剿流浪狗的行動，以防市民被咬。Pakistan is one of several countries that is still to eliminate rabies, meaning that receiving a bite from an infected dog could be deadly. The disease affects the central nervous system of most warm-blooded animals.
巴基斯坦是尚未能夠清除狂犬病的國家之一，這意味着被感染過的狗咬一口就有可能喪命。這種疾病會影響大多數恆溫動物的中樞神經系統。According to the World Health Organisation few activities are underway to try to eliminate the infection in Pakistan, meaning people are at risk from rabid dogs. They add that culling alone will not eliminate the threat of rabies as there is no evidence to suggest it reduces the spread of the disease.
根據世界衛生組織的報告顯示，巴基斯坦在消除狂犬病方面幾乎沒有做什麼努力，這意味着人們面對着來自患病犬隻的高風險。該組織補充說道，僅有圍捕行動是無法消除狂犬病的威脅的，因爲沒有證據證明這會減少該病的傳播。Last year, officials in Russia came under fire after it was reported that the city of Sochi had hired a private company to kill as many stray dogs as possible before the Winter Olympics.
去年，索契市在舉辦冬奧會之前僱了一傢俬人公司撲殺儘可能多的流浪狗，之後就有俄羅斯官員遭到了炮轟，Russia's stray dog problem appears to stem from decades of animals being dumped on the streets when their owners realise they can no longer afford to keep them. These dogs then breed among themselves, giving rise to a population of animals that have never been properly domesticated.
俄羅斯的流浪狗問題，源自街上大量被棄置的動物，它們的主人養不起它們之後就會拋棄它們。然後這些狗就開始自行繁殖，導致未能被合理飼養的數量越來越多。
