The "Sociedad Protectora de Animales de Zihuatanejo" (Animal Humane Society of Zihuatanejo) was founded in 1982 by the late Mrs. Helene Krebs Posse, a long-time Zihuatanejo resident who also raised her family here. She began without adequate installations and funded it entirely out of her own pocket.
Here she is to the right attending to an injured baby burro found along the highway.
The idea came about due to the obvious need to care for, attend to, rehabilitate and provide refuge for hundreds of wild and domestic animals which had been abandoned, abused, neglected and injured in the streets, beaches and surrounding countryside. They had been previously left to their fate to die in slow, painful agony, subject to thirst, hunger, injuries and illness.
To the left is one of our typical heartbreaking abandoned and undernourished puppies. We get a lot of these.
To the right is an estuarine turtle typically found in mangrove areas. This one has a cracked shell.
To the left is another one of our typical patients. Many pelicans, boobies and frigates are injured in run-ins with local fishermen as they try to steal bait from trolled lines.
To the right are orphaned baby herons from one of our local mangrove estuaries.
To the left is one of our more celebrated customers, Pánfila the sea lion (read her story). She is a rare species whose natural habitat is Isla de Guadalupe, an island about 250 kilometers west of the Baja Peninsula in the Pacific Ocean. Found starving and lost by fishermen in Papanoa, she was eventually released to another group of sea lions near La Paz, Baja California del Sur.
To the right is an adopted pig along with a couple of abandoned cats. This cute little guy thought he was a dog!
Casa Marina
Paseo del Pescador #9
Centro
C.P. 40880 Zihuatanejo, Guerrero
Mexico
Tel. (755) 554-2373, Cel. 755-112-1648
e-mail: SPAZ@zihuatanejo.net
Find us next to the Plaza Principal on the waterfront. Our hours are from 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM, Monday to Saturday.
The organization maintains itself with the sale of T-shirts bearing the logo of the Society and with donations from persons within the country and abroad.
All donations are welcome and can be made at the Society's installations or deposited to their bank account at:
Bank: Banamex
Branch: 0018
Account: 8005020
CLABE: 002282001880050202
We also accept donations via PayPal.
News of Interest
Please see the following links for information of interest to all those who love dolphins.
"Extreme Cruelty to Dolphins" by Iván Restrepo
The Dolphin Captivity Industry
Denuncia de la Explotación de los Delfines en Acuarios