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  • From 1 to 10 weeks

  • Amazon Region

  • Ecuador - South America

  • Max People : 8

    Love animals? Help improve animal welfare while living in the Amazon Rainforest

    Highlights

    • Work with exotic animals that can only be found in the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest, distinguished as one of the most biodiverse places in the world!
    • Make a difference by improving animals’ rehabilitation and release into the wild.
    • Enjoy a fantastic opportunity to live the Amazon experience, all while helping to conserve it!
    • Perfect to learn more about the animals, their habitats, and daily needs as well as the Amazon Rainforest, conservation, and more!
    • Weekends free to explore and enjoy the other attractions that Ecuador has to offer.
    • Be part of a better world!
    • Make friends!

    Price From: $290

      This is a unique opportunity to work directly with the Amazon Animal Rescue Center. The Center works for the protection of amazonian wildlife, one of the most threatened natural resources of the Amazon Rainforest due to habitat destruction, unsustainable hunting and illegal trapping.
      As a volunteer with the Amazon Animal Rescue Center, you get the chance to have a direct effect on animal welfare in the Amazon! You can help rescue and rehabilitate animals that have been illegally trapped, injured and abused, and provide them with safe enclosures and food as close as possible to their natural environment to enable their recovery. The center provides enrichment tools to enable the animals to utilize their natural skills and live in conditions close to those they would experience in the wild to prepare them for their release back into the wild.

      Imagine doing all of this while living in a spectacularly beautiful area in the Amazon rainforest, something that so few people get to experience!

      • True local Impact

      • Be responsible

        • Help the nature

        • Explore the Country

          Volunteer Role

          Volunteers are crucial to Center and they are always in need of a new pair of hands to help with their work. You can really make a difference!
          What I will be Doing?

          Volunteers will be responsible for helping to foster their transition back to the wild. Key volunteer responsibilities include:

        • Helping to build, improve and maintain enclosures.
        • Preparation and distribution of food to the animals.
        • Cleaning enclosures.
        • Clearing and maintaining access paths.
        • Assisting with botanical studies in the Amazon.

          • The Amazon Rescue Center welcomes volunteers to help with the center’s day-to-day tasks. This often includes work on existing projects but volunteers can also assist with new ones. Some of the specific projects which volunteers can make happen include developing new environmental awareness programs in the local schools and building new islands as fenceless sanctuaries for the animals. You will also be providing essential financial support to the center.

          Do I need Experience?

          Volunteers require no previous experience with animals, although it is a perfect place for budding zoologists, animal carers and vets to learn and gain experience. Volunteers need to love the natural world, be enthusiastic, have the motivation to help and to learn and the desire to make a difference. An easy-going, friendly personality is also a must.

          A day at the program can involve:

          • 07:30 - 08:00 Breakfast with the volunteers.
          • 08:00 - 09:00 Morning meeting and food preparing for the animals.
          • 09:30 - 12:00 Feeding the animals and cleaning their enclosures.
          • 12:00 - 15:00 Lunch, and time to rest and relax.
          • 15:30 - 17:30 Prepare food for and feed the nocturnal animals.
          • 17:30 - 18:30 Dinner.
          • 17:30 - Onwards Free time to go to Puyo and/or enjoy the surroundings.

          Living

          You can choose from Hostel to Hotel and different categories, just ask our specialists for a free quote

          Accommodations

          Volunteers stay in cabañas with a capacity for 3-4 persons, which are located in the heart of the center. You can watch the animals from your hammock on the deck, and in the morning wake up to the soundtrack of the jungle: macaws, parrots, monkeys, and the other animals that the center cares for. These cabañas are rustic but have all modern necessities such as electricity, and the bathrooms next to the cabins have hot and cold running water. Elsewhere around the center, there are picnic areas and designated campfire sites where volunteers can go and sit around the fire in the evenings, play the guitar, sing songs, toast marshmallows, and do various other activities.

          Surrounding Area

          In their spare time volunteers have the opportunity to explore the local area, which includes attractions such as:
        • Baños, a town located in the Northern foothills of the Tungurahua volcano, is 1 hour away by bus. The town is named after the mineral water hydrothermal springs located around the city. Baños offers many adventure activities, including a spectacular hike down the Manto de la Virgen waterfall, horseback riding in the hills around the town, walking, mountain biking the breathtaking scenic road to Puyo or rafting on one of the nearby rivers. Afterwards, you can relax in one of the springs that give the town its name.
        • Take a jungle tour into the Amazon Rainforest. There are many tour operators in Baños and some in Puyo that can help you organize this fantastic trip.
        • Visit the National Park Yasuni. The park is primarily rainforest that spreads over 9,820 square kilometres between the Napo and Curaray Rivers in the Napo and Pastaza provinces in Amazonian Ecuador, around 250m from Quito. The park was designated a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1989

          • Meals

          All meals are included. A communal kitchen and dining area is available for the use of volunteers and staff. The kitchen area is large and well-equipped with all the necessary appliances and utensils. Volunteers and staff eat together for breakfast, lunch and dinner in the dining area, which is also used for meetings, giving presentations, social events and as a communal area where volunteers can hang out, relax and share experiences. On Wednesday dinner is not included, Volunteers have dinner at town.

          It is our desire to make these programs available for most people, taking into consideration the various needs, budgets and expectations different people have. Please find below the pricing options we offer.

          Price Includes

          • Logistic Orientation in Quito

          • Dormitory Accommodation at the project

          • Three meals per day

          • 24-hour emergency contact number and support

          • Full support prior to departure from your personal travel advisor

            Not Included

            • International flights

            • Any activities beyond your planned itinerary

            • Transportation from the project to Quito (on the way back from the project)

            • Taxi from Quito’s Bus Terminal to hostel in Quito (on the way back from the project)

            • Extra volunteer work weeks

              Additional Costs

              • An airport pick​ ​u​p upon arrival ​​​

              • ​Accommodation in Quito

              • ​Transfer to the Bus Station Terminal​

              • Ticket Public Transportation to the project

                Contact us and one of our travel experts will help you with a full budget description for your Travel Experience

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