Volunteers > ARCAS Animal Rescue Centre- Peten

Description
ARCAS is a wild animal rescue and rehabilitation centre for the wild animals from the Maya Biosphere Reserve. All animals that come to the centre must past through quarantine first. After this they are transferred to the rehabilitation area where they are held individual or in groups. There is an animal hospital on the premises for the sick or injured animals. They try to reintroduce all the animals back into the Mayan Biosphere Reserve, however due to the fact that many animals become imprinted on their human nurses or never receive training that a wild animal would, many of the animals may never be released in the wild.

Activities
The work consists of cage cleaning, food preparation, monitoring the heath of the animals. In addition to these tasks volunteers will often be asked to perform extra duties such as construction of cages or extra buildings, trail maintenance, gathering wild food for the animals, research into the wild diets of the animals.

Minimum: 2/3 weeks.
Spanish: Intermediate.
Schedule: Flexible.
Location: 18 kilometres from Flores - Peten, in the north of Guatemala
Others: The costs for this project are higher, you will have to pay $30 extra, on top of your program costs each week!!

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