Animal transfer

A water buffalo is loaded inside a truck enroute to the animal evacuation center. The Albay provincial government and animal welfare advocates on Tuesday started transferring animals left in Mayon Volcano’s danger zones to safer ground.

The Agri-Rehab office plan to bring to safety some 2,014 carabaos, 1,793 cows, and 4,640 dogs from five municipalities and three cities in Albay under threat from Mayon’s impending eruption.

Workers from Albay’s Agriculture Rehabiliation (Agri-Rehab) office marked the animals so that their owners could distinguish them.