By Elsa Kohlbus | Communications Coordinator
Animal Balance is thrilled to confirm that we will be returning to the Galapagos Islands in May 2018 to continue work sterilizing and vaccinating cats and dogs on the archipelago. The team will be returning to San Cristobal for a week-long campaign, following a successful sterilization and vaccination campaign there last fall, during which 386 cats and dogs were sterilized, and hundreds of dogs were vaccinated.This campaign was held in cooperation with Agencia de Regulacion y Control de la Bioseguridad para Galapagos (ABG), the local authorities on biosecurity for the Galapagos.
After San Cristobal, the team will travel to the more remote island of Isabela for another week-long campaign. This will be the first time for Animal Balance returning to Isabela since 2014, and the first time that the canine DHLPP vaccine will be offered to dogs on this island.
Animal Balance has partnered with ABG to build sustainable programs to humanely manage cat and dog populations on the islands. By maintaining the balance of these species, other species on the islands including sealions, tortoises, blue footed boobies, and many others, are allowed to flourish.
The progress that is being made on the Galapagos will now also serve as a model for Animal Balance, so that we can prove to other islands around the world that spay/neuter and vaccinations help to humanely manage and maintain a healthy cat and dog population, which contributes to the overall health of other wildlife on the islands. This project in particular provides us with an ideal example of how to incorporate local authorities and the community in order to get them to embrace solutions and ignite social change from within.
We are grateful to everyone who has supported, and continues to support, our efforts to show the world that killing one species in order to protect another is not the solution. The Galapagos Islands have always shown us that many species can coexist and we are honored to be able to continue this work in such an amazing environment.
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