Our project in the Amazon: The KURI PACHAMAMA refuge :
In November 2023, we inaugurated our wildlife refuge, approved by the Ecuadorian Ministry of the Environment. This refuge cares for animals that are victims of illegal trafficking and deforestation, and works to rehabilitate them in nature reserves adapted to their specific needs.
Our complementary actions:
We conduct awareness campaigns on economic alternatives to gold mining and animal trafficking. We are also involved in education and environmental preservation in schools and local communities.
What is your program exactly about?
Our program consists of helping us with the daily tasks of caring for the animals in the shelter.
What is your role ?
- Participate in the operation of the shelter: feeding, caring for (light), washing the animals' cages
- Participate in the preparation, collection of food for the animals
- Participate in building habitats for the animals
- Participate in improving the animal straps
- Participate in the rehabilitation process
- Be trained on: the characteristics and needs of each animal
we expect respect, commitment, interest, positivity, kindness from volunteers.
You can expect the same from us, teamwork in a good atmosphere.
We are a young team, we are passionate about our activity.
*How can you contribute?*
Your contribution to pay for your volunteering helps us pay the veterinarian's salaries ($800/month), food ($450 per month)
*Why is your support important?*
We are not a zoo, and the entrance to visitors is not open, because the animals must have as little contact with humans as possible to be rehabilitated. This limits the resources to pay our veterinarian... Your support allows us to gain autonomy in our long-term initiatives.
Surroundings and the locations where the volunteers will be working and living at :
To
come to the shelter and the reception house of the foundation, there
are different ways, there is a part of tarred road of 2.4km and a part
of stone/sand road of 2.4km, for a total of 4.8km:
- On foot: it will take you 1h15mn
- By taxi: it will take you 11mn, you will pay $4, we advise you to group together to take the taxi and thus reduce the costs
You will work in a shelter which is 3 minutes walk from the reception house. The shelter is in the forest, isolated.
The shelter is 36 m2
the total surface used for the animals is 2 hectares
there is a 35x35m ring where there is currently a tapir + 2 other small 10x10m rings where the agoutis are
Two ponds of 50 m x 12m welcome a small caiman and several turtles
A workshop to raise the crickets that the monkeys eat.
You
will live in the 200m2 host house in the middle of the forest with a
shared bedroom, two large terraces, one downstairs and one upstairs, a
large shared kitchen, luxury dry toilets, two showers including a hot
one. The house is comfortable with wifi, electricity, and water
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