This is a unique opportunity to work directly with the Amazon Animal Rescue Center, set up by an animal-loving family in 2006, and the wild animals they care for. 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 utilise 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!
Quito – Ecuador (Google Map)
Around 9:30 in the morning
Volunteers will be responsible for helping to foster their transition back to the wild. Key volunteer responsibilities include:
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.
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.
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.
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.
