How we work

Rescue & Rehabilitation

Sometimes animals are brought in by local people, tourists, or even volunteers, who have found them injured or abandoned in the streets and the wilderness. These rescued animals are often smaller or younger animals or infants that have lost their mother and would have no chance of survival on their own.

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At the center, we aim to rehabilitate animals and give them the best possible conditions to recover from their physical and sometimes also mental injuries. When new animals come in, they are examined by vets who determine what actions need to be done for each individual situation. Care, treatments, and retraining are within the responsibility of permanent staff, and volunteers often get a chance to take over parts of tasks depending on the requirements of the tasks and each volunteer's qualifications. 

Team

Our team of workers consists of volunteers and our on-site veterinarian who all take up an important part in keeping the center running.

In order to manage all the tasks and duties that our center requires we depend on the help of motivated and responsible volunteers. Volunteer general tasks involve food preparation, cleaning and maintaining enclosures, building activity toys, and providing enrichment for animals. Apart from daily tasks, we also need help with any additional projects that may come up in the course of the day and most require extra work.  You can learn more about projects on the Projects page.

Location

Luckily just a short drive down the road, in Cebadilla, we found a fantastic site with little rivers, meadows, hills, and big beautiful fruit trees! It suits our animals and volunteers perfectly and we began the move here in June 2016; with lots of volunteers helping in the process - who we are eternally grateful for! We are still working every day on improving the place and enclosures but so far we built an animal hospital, a huge aviary, two sloth gardens, and various big monkey cages, including trees, and equipped with many enrichment items to keep our rescued ones active - physically and cognitive.

2005 - 2022

YEAR by YEAR GROWTH

Every year we strive to improve our facilities and resources to be able to save more animals each year, your donations help us get the funds needed to hire more professionals and increase the size of our facilities as well as get better equipment. We work on a year-by-year growth model since when we increase something we need to adapt quickly and smoothly to ensure the animals are transferred safely and stress-free.