Amazon Shelter

Amazon Shelter is a charity based in Puerto Maldonado, Peru working on nature & wildlife conservation, animal welfare.

Amazon Shelter is a wildlife rehabilitation and release centre in Tambopata, Peru, near Puerto Maldonado. It rescues wild animals affected by habitat loss, hunting, mining and the illegal wildlife trade, including monkeys, deer, peccaries, tapirs, macaws, parrots and parakeets. Animals receive health checks, specific diets and rehabilitation before being released back into the forest. The centre also hosts volunteers, who help with animal care, enclosure enrichment, releases and a wildlife education outreach programme. Donations and monthly giving fund food, medicines, baby animal care, enclosures and release costs.