Animal Welfare Volunteering (1 program)


Santa Martha Rescue Center - Flor de la Amazonia

About the institution
Santa Martha Rescue Center Flor de la Amazonia is a new animal rehabilitation and release center in the Amazon jungle of Ecuador. They are working in partnership with an indigenous Indian community.

Flor de la Amazonía provides a unique opportunity to actively work in an animal rehabilitation and release programme and to work with and help an Indian community of the Amazon. Its main goal is to rescue wild animals from unhealthy and illegal situations, which have been the victims of animal-trafficking or mistreatment. Operating since 2006 , they have over 1,000 private hectares of primary Amazon forest within which they can release the rescued animals. The most commonly trafficked groups of animals are primates, birds, and reptiles.

In Santa Martha receive new animals daily, and at any one time they have a wide variety staying with them.

Description of the work
This is a unique opportunity to actively work in an animal rehabilitation and release programme, and to work with and to help an Indian community of the Amazon. Volunteers may also have the opportunity to participate in the liberation of animals ready to return to their natural habitat, directly focused on preparing animals for release. Volunteers will, also, be working alongside and contributing to the indigenous community. There may be opportunities to assist the children with school or other activities or to help the family's plant new crops, for example. A proportion of volunteer fees are also put directly back into this community.