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Amazon Animal Care and Rescue

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The experience

Zoorefugio tarqui was created in 2008 with the main objective to help the animals that are victims of the illegal trafficking, we take care of them and provide what is necessary to improve their quality of life. On this program you will work at a local animal shelter, helping the animals with fooding and taking care of them, and vaccinations.You may also do other activities like painting, gardening,maintenance and creation for animal enclosure.

What you offer

30 hours of help per week

Animal Care: Help look after and take care of animals.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

Cleaning: Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.

Arts: Help with painting, graffiti, sculpting or drawing.

Additional fee required

Amount: US$ 28 Per day

Fee pays for: Benefits for travelers, Materials for volunteer activities, and Donation to project

Description: The additional fee is 200USD per week, this helps cover the cost of your accommodation and meals during your stay. This fee goes directly to the conservation project, helping to protect wildlife and make a lasting impact in the community. By contributing, you help each of these rescued animals.

What you get

2 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Team Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other people.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Discounts on Tours: Get discounts for tours and excursions around town.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Free Tours: We’ll take you on tours and rides around town. For free!

Free Hiking Tours: We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!

Free Events: Get free entrance for the best events in town.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Certificate: Get a certificate of completion after you finish your experience.

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Beginner Spanish or Beginner English

Over 18 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Our preservation work is achieved through 3 processes, education, recreation and research. In these 3 areas we cover key issues such as illegal trafficking of animals. We often receive animals that have been the victim of trafficking or similar illegal activities, upon receiving such individuals we try to rehabilitate and release them back into the wild when possible. However the sad fact is that this is not always possible so some individuals remain with us at our zoo, we endeavour to provide these animals with an environment as similar to their natural habitat as possible. It is our excellent work with such animals that has lead other rescue centres to send us animals they receive and cannot care for, as well as receiving many illegally kept animals seized by the Ministry of Environment.
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Activities & Shift

A typical volunteer day begins at 8:00 am.
-First they prepare their own breakfast to start the day, then they walk to the nutrition area where they meet with the zookeeper and all the volunteers to prepare the different animal diets.
-Feeding the animals from 8am -12pm, includes cutting fruits or vegetables, cleaning the enclosures, receiving food scraps.
-During the day the volunteers can carry out different activities such as painting, cleaning the trails, and making some repairs, things that sometimes the volunteers are very skillful
- At 12pm volunteers have lunch at the center.
- After lunch the volunteers have a break until 15:00 pm where they end up feeding a few animals until 17:00pm.

Volunteers’ activities are from cleaning enclosures, paths, feeding the animals, caring the animals in quarantine (arrived animals, or baby animals), and working in the enrichment area.

Rules

-Avoid any activities that may be harmful towards animals at the Zoo.
-Smoking is not allowed near by the animals.
-Mutual respect towards other volunteers in shared rooms is key; bullying, sexual harassment, racism/discrimination, and disrespectful comments are prohibited.