Dog and cat sterilization campaign promotes the conservation of wildlife in the Chocó Andino – Quito Informa

• The last campaign was carried out this May 18, 2024, in the Nanegal parish. To date, 253 pets have been cared for.

Quito, May 23, 2024, (Quito Informa). – Through inter-institutional cooperation, 13 sterilization campaigns for pets (dogs and cats) are scheduled to be carried out in the Choco Andino conservation areas that are part of the Metropolitan Subsystem of Protected Natural Areas-SMANP.

To date, three sterilization and deworming campaigns have been carried out in the Conservation and Sustainable Use Area -ACUS Pachijal Water and Archaeological System and in the Andean Bear Ecological Corridor – CEOA, parishes of Nanegal and Nanegalito, benefiting 16 communities among them. San Sebastián, Miraflores, Las Tolas Armenia, Palmitopamaba and Santa Marianita among others.

To mitigate the effects of dogs and cats on wildlife in the DMQ, since 2020, the Ministry of the Environment and the Andean Cóndor Foundation have been carrying out sterilization and deworming campaigns for dogs and cats. The Animal Welfare Unit (UBA) of the DMQ Health Secretariat, the University of San Francisco de Quito, the Equinoccial Technological University-UTE and the Management Committees of the Metropolitan Protected Areas have joined this effort.

Poorly managed companion animals, which are free-living and abandoned, have become feral and feral animals, directly affecting wildlife populations, infecting them with diseases, competing for food and attacking them, there are even known dogs that They attack livestock.

The municipality encourages the citizens of the Metropolitan Protected Areas of the Choco Andino to be attentive to the dates and operational centers of this pet sterilization crusade as a mitigation measure for the effects on wildlife.