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Eco Volunteer Up: Animal rescue in the Amazon, Ecuador

This project was founded in 2006 in partnership with a local indigenous family that lives on rainforest land. 

The project rescues and rehabilitates wild animals from the jungle that were often illegally captured for sale to tourists or were injured or mistreated by their owners. This placement is ideal for people interested in biology, animal rights, conservation, and environmental policy, Remote but beautiful, the property teems with its talkative residents: parrots, monkeys, turtles, wild cats, and other mammals who call the verdant, lush green surroundings of this idyllic tropical location home.

Main volunteer activities:

- feeding animals

- clean enclousers

- plant, clean and pick fruits and vegetables

- collect insects for certain animals

You will have a wonderful time in this project , knowing local people and from different countries, hike around the forest, take baths in the small lagoon. 

The program fee : 

US$ 225 registration fee includes: Quito pick up airport, orientation, 24 support, a night with a host family Quito including breakfast and dinner, transfer from host family to bus station Quito, pick up bus station in Puyo, cordinator will pick up in Puyo and take you to the project. 

US$ 100 per week accommodation and three meals per day.  

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