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we have 3 beautiful rescued jaguars who were all once victims of the illegal pet trade.
whilst all of our primates are now free and back in the jungle where they belong, we still need help with looking after our jags! daily tasks include feeding, providing enrichment and company for them, improving and maintaining their enclosures and giving them the best possible quality of life whilst under our care. also possibility to help out with monkeys!
25 hours of help per week
Cleaning: Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.
Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.
Animal Care: Help look after and take care of animals.
Amount: US$ 10 Per day
Fee pays for: Materials for volunteer activities
Description: volunteers contribute 10USD a day (80usd at the end of their week) to cover for food , accommodation and electricity expenses. this money goes directly to buying our groceries that get sent by boat to us twice a week.
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.
Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.
Certificate: Get a certificate of completion after you finish your experience.
Fluent English or Fluent Spanish
Between 18 and 75 years old
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
volunteers will be spending their days looking after 3 gorgeous jaguars , Beni, Khali and Kobu, whilst we put in all our efforts to give them the very best lives possible whilst being in captivity. Whilst we still have hopes for their future and potential release for 2 of them, we are currently in the process of releasing our ocelot and margay, the first on record in Bolivia to be done under these circumstances! we must focus on completing the release and post release for these two before starting our release plan for the jaguars.
As well as caring for the cats, we also still have work to do with our spider monkeys , whilst they are in their final stages of rewilding. they are all released , so the work is mostly to feed and observe behavior, whilst also keeping them to stay overnight in primary forest. Also, on occasion helping with daily activities of preparing food for the animals, helping to carry the shopping on boat days (2x weekly) and general maintenance. conditions are rustic and raw, but the animals and vision of hopes for future release make it all worth it. volunteers will have the opportunity to experience mother nature in all her glory, living in the jungle amongst different species of monkeys who were once the victims of the illegal pet trade. in the last year we have finally released all our monkeys on site, so volunteers will have the chance to see up to 3 different groups of capuchins, squirrel monkeys and spider monkeys who now live independently on site. we used to be focused primarily on rescue and rehabilitation, rewilding and release . now that we have succeeded to release a huge number of animals and restored the monkey population back in this local area, we must continue to focus on taking care of our permanent and semi permanent residents.
IMPORTANT FOR ALL VOLUNTEERS TO UNDERSTAND:
We have 4 troops of rewilded and free monkeys (capuchins, squirrel and spider monkeys). All our monkeys were released on site to be able to repopulate the area that was destroyed by poaching, In turn also helping regrow the jungle back to primary forest again, through endozoochory. However, this means that although normally you may just see the monkeys passing by high up in the trees, there have been some rare occasions where people have been jumped or bitten due to not respecting certain rules. we need all volunteers to understand before arrival that we share space with these rewilded animals, and whilst it’s beautiful to witness creatures who were once victims of the illegal pet trade now living their best life back in the jungle where they belong, we need volunteers to respect that we are in THEIR territory, and so accidents may NOT ALWAYS BE IN OUR CONTROL.
Whilst we have safety rules in place to prevent accidents from happening, volunteers also need to understand that natural changing events can influence the behavior of the monkeys, so people mustbe adaptable to these changes.
We also require volunteers to appreciate that some individuals have spent all their lives around humans, so have proven to be impossible to fully dehumanize. Whilst we can love them with all our souls, volunteers MUST RESPECT the NO CONTACT RULE, and must not be encouraging monkeys down to them or interacting with them for their own pleasure, as this is destroying years and years of progress and hard work we have done to give them their best chances at success.
Volunteers encouraging monkeys to have contact are acting selfishly and putting others at risk, and this will not be tolerated.
We are here to help the animals, not satisfy your whims.
