By Brontë Schiltz
Isla Mujeres, off the coast of Cancun, Mexico, is just five miles long and home to 23,000 people – and many stray animals cared for by Isla Animal Rescue. Now, local authorities have evicted the charity from its long-term headquarters. Founder Alison Sawyer told Street News more about the organisation’s inception, vital work and uncertain future.
“I moved to Isla Mujeres in 1999,” says Alison Sawyer, now 70 and originally from Canada. “At the time, I was a fulltime potter and had no experience with animal rescue, but the island was absolutely crawling with sick, starving, scared dogs.
“Some of them were wild and every now and then, one of them would bite someone, and then the government would go out and electrocute dogs, but of course they could never catch the wild ones, so it was just a show.
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