The main target is to humanely reduce the number of homeless dogs by applying Animal Birth Control /ABC/ program through Trap Neuter Release /TNR/ method and vaccinate against rabies in order to save the endangered Ethiopian wolf from threat of extinction from rabies and hybridization. 

The idea of this society is emanated due to the measures used to be taken in the BMNP to eliminate homeless dogs to save the endangered Ethiopian Wolf from rabies and hybridization, the measures were shooting and poisoning which never helps to solve the problem though it were practiced for the past several years.

Few of the park staffs who noticed the cruelty and ineffectiveness of the above mentioned measures from their past experience decided to establish this society in order to solve the problem and save the animals from cruel activities and also from extinction.    

In addition, due to the growing population of homeless dogs in many regions of Ethiopia medical and physical problems have also been spread towards the; 

	Community
	Domestic animals
	Wild animals and
	On the dogs them selves

The focus of Homeless Animals Protection Society/ HAPS / is primarily to protect homeless dogs in order to reduce the problems they are causing to their surroundings and on themselves.  

The purpose of this organization is to promote animal welfare and right primarily through community Education then try to reduce the suffering of homeless dogs through Vaccination and Neutering.  

Based on this HAPS is founded in October 29, 2001 as the first of its kind in the country to help the helpless animals and solve the problem  .

For further information please read the below article published on ANIMAL PEOPLE news paper:

	May 2001  “The Dogs of Bale”
	September 2001  “Animal activism erupts in Africa”
	I ask explicitly for your support to shoot these dogs...
	November 2003  “Conservation group experts urged dog shooting in Ethiopia”
	December 2003 Letters Conservation group experts urged dog shooting in Ethiopia
	December 2003  “Radio Ethiopia investigates dog shooting in Bale Mountains National Park”
	March 2004  “Ethiopian animal advocates lose jobs for exposing dog shooting”
	July/August 2004 HAPS is back at work in Ethiopia.
	April 2005 Ethiopians Fight on Against Dog Shooting. Top