Mar 12, 2018
Creating new paths through the Jungle with some German Explorers (2017 Archives) #merazonia (at Shell Mera, Pastaza)
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Creating new paths through the Jungle with some German Explorers (2017 Archives) #merazonia (at Shell Mera, Pastaza)
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Rio on his first full day at Merazonia. #merazonia #ecuador #vscocam #fujifilmxseries #woollymonkey #primates (at South America Ecuador Shell Mera)
Two-toed Sloth. They are stronger then you'd think. #sloth #merazonia #ecuador #vscocam #fujifilmxseries (at South America Ecuador Shell Mera)
Diego. One of Merazonia's beautiful monkeys. #merazonia #jungle #ecuador #fujifilmxseries #fujifilm #woollymonkey #animals
Galaxies look better in the jungle. #merazonia #fujifilm #stars #astrophotography #jungle (at Puyo, Amazonas)
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Merazonia!
Merazonia!
My next adventure took me to the cloud forest of Mera, where I had a three week internship at Merazonia, a wildlife rehabilitation center for abused and trafficked Amazonian animals.
Life at Merazonia was amazing, but not without lots of hard work! Monday through Saturday, we had three working shifts, before breakfast, after breakfast, and after lunch. For the shift you were either assigned to work on one of the animal rounds or on projects. Animal rounds included: Capuchins, Woollies, Big Birds, and Small Birds (also Howlers, Quarantine and Cats - but only supervisors and long-term volunteers could work with those animals). On the Capuchin round we took care of a large cage of six white-fronted capuchin monkeys, a small cage with a mating pair of golden-mantled tamarins, a cage with a lone tamarin, a cage with a lone capuchin, and the flightless blue and yellow macaw, Malcolm. On the Woolly round we took care of a large cage with six woolly monkeys and two kinkajou boys that are on soft release. On the Big Bird round we took care of a large aviary (filled with macaws, large parrots, and an Agouti named Ms. Guatin). On the Small Bird round we took care of two small aviaries (filled with different kinds of small parrots), two birds located near the clinic and the kinkajou girls. Shifts started by preparing food and cutting branches to put in the cages. We would hike to the cage and systematically open and close the doors connecting the different cage sections in order to clean and place food throughout the cage. On projects we worked on chores, path maintenance, cage construction, and animal enrichment.
The people at Merazonia were mainly from different places in Europe (had to get used to hearing French, Italian and Dutch instead of Spanish haha). They were great people to work with and I honestly felt a part of a big happy family. We had communal dinners, movie nights, bonfires and nights out in the nearby town of Puyo.
We had one free day a week where me and Kylie traveled to Baños to eat pizza, get wifi, wash our clothes and even go zip-lining for my birthday!
All in all, my internship was amazing. I meet great people from all around the world and work closely with amazing animals. I was sad to go and contemplated telling Joe and Cath that me and Kylie had simply gone missing in the jungle haha!
Jungle update!
Its been a busy few weeks at the centre with lots of animals moving and being released. Loma our squirrel monkey has gone off to another center so she can live with her own kind, the kinkajou boys are being soft released and will hopefully be joined by the girls very soon. Our baby howler monkey Seamus is hopefully going to meet Niamh, our older howler within the next few days, fingers crossed they get on well! We also had a sloth brought in this week who was able to be released back into the jungle straight away. In personal news, its not been a fantastic week. I fell and badly hurt my wrist, couldnt move it for two days, then got attacked by a swarm of wasps. 15 stings. My left arm and leg were so swollen and painful i couldnt walk! Im mostly recovered now though, but most of my electronics (including my tablet and torch :( ) are dead. Hopefully next week is just as exciting but a little less painful!