Galapagos Preservation Society

Conservation with Compassion

For more information visit: www.gpsociety.org

Allison Lance founded GPS 2008 to conserve the fragile island ecosystem of the Galapagos Islands, protect wild animals and promote increased dog and cat welfare. We humanely remove and re-home dogs and cats who, abandoned by humans, often prey upon native wildlife. We work on public outreach campaigns and education programs to raise awareness about humane treatment of dogs and cats and the threat they pose to wildlife when left to roam. We also work to investigate and expose the trade in dogs and cats and educate people on the threats these animals pose to vulnerable island environments and endangered animals.

Allison Lance began rescuing and re-homing street dogs and cats from islands all over the world in 1997. In 2004, she started working in the Galapagos Islands to spay and neuter dogs and cats, and rescued a dog-named Kiki from San Cristobal. Kiki was infamous among the fishermen for terrorizing and preying on land iguanas. Since 2004, Allison has single-handedly rescued dozens of homeless dogs and cats off Galapagos and re-homed them in the United States. In 2008, she founded GPS so that she could address the problem of street dogs and cats in Galapagos in a more comprehensive way.

GPS envisions a future in which there are no stray or free-roaming dogs and cats on any of the Galapagos Islands. GPS works for a Galapagos where all cats and dogs are cared for and are kept indoors or inside fenced areas so that they no longer pose a threat to indigenous wildlife. GPS further envisions the mandatory sterilization of all cats and dogs on every island, the prohibition of breeding dogs and cats on Galapagos as well as the strict enforcement of the law prohibiting transport of dogs and cats to the islands.