📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
La Marina Wildlife Rescue Center is a privately funded Animal Rescue Center in Costa Rica. Animal victims of repossession, loss of habitat and accidents from all over the country are brought in by local officials. Many animals are nursed back to health at the center and released back into their natural habitat. Programs: 1.Breeding: The aim of the Breeding Program is to return to nature the offspring of animals that were removed from their habitat. Tapirs, spider monkeys, green macaws, scarlet macaws, and a few different types of felines are just some of the animals that are bred here. 2.Liberation : This program benefits the animals born in the Wildlife Rescue Center that show characteristics necessary for surviving in a natural environment. The selected animals enter a rigorous program where they are taught how to obtain food, guaranteeing their health and well-being. 3.Reintroduction : The Reintroduction Program applies to all animals that enter the Wildlife Rescue Center because of repossession, habitat destruction, hunting, or from being injured. These animals are placed in quarantine, rehabilitated, and if they fit the necessary profile, are released into protected wild areas.4. Rescue : The rescue program at the Wildlife Rescue Center La Marina Foundation has saved the lives of many wild animals that for different reasons have either been a threat to people, or people and their activities have been a threat to them. 5.Conservation :This program concentrates on the daily maintenance of animals that have no hope of returning to their natural habitat. Here, they are given a lot of affection and the proper conditions that will hopefully improve their lives. 6.Education: The animals in the Conservation Program lend a great service educating visitors with their stories and showing the need for change with some human practices and lifestyles that lead to unhealthy developmen
Possible tasks for the volunteers : to clean cages, to prepare the food for the animals, to feed the animals, to maintain infrastructure. There are opportunities to perform other activities including construction, paint, art-work or other tasks that you may have the skills for.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation and food are provided.
📍 About the location
La Marina of San Carlos (Northern Plains of Costa Rica)
⚠️ Requirements
to have the maturity to work following the rules in a responsible way. The project has internal rules that apply to the project, the community and the host families, to be willing to work with and handle wild animals. It is important for you as a volunteer to keep in mind the risks that come with this kind of work. The animals that they receive are partially tamed, but they remain wild and unpredictable. The project assumes no responsibility on the volunteer’s health expenses; this is why you are asked to come with personal health insurance, to work on tasks such as: building cages and fences, digging ditches, raking, and others, to adapt to outdoor work in a tropical climate with very modest living accommodations and insects, to work with people from other countries and age groups, to have the maturity to work in a foreign country for an extended time period, to have the maturity to adapt to a different culture with different manners, although it is not required, Spanish knowledge will benefit you, to be eager to learn Spanish and to share your life with Costa Rican farmers, to get up early in the morning and work from early in the morning until the afternoon, five days a week, to be able to live in a rural small community with simple conditions, Important: to be vaccinated against Tetanus, Measles, Mumps and other eruptive diseases. Although it is not absolutely required, we suggest you getting a full set of Rabies vaccination prior to come to the project.
ℹ️ Additional information
Extra fees to pay on arrival based on a 4weeks stay (camp fee 520 $ + adm. cost 150$ for ACI Costa Rica). 130 $ for each extra week. Open all year, arrival date is free.