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Fundación Loros

For tour operators, DMCs & travel designers

The conservation experience your Colombia program is missing.

A peer-reviewed wildlife-release reserve an hour from Cartagena, run entirely by our own bilingual team — a real conservation day your travelers will remember, and one you can recommend with confidence.

Published in Bird Conservation International (Cambridge) · eBird hotspot · CARDIQUE Res. 1972/2022 · 4.9★ on Tripadvisor

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Where it all began

Fundación Loros started in 2019 with a single hand-raised parrot — Beethoven — in a Cartagena apartment: a syringe, a spoon, and the internet for a vet. In 2022 the environmental authority granted our first rehabilitation permit; a few birds became dozens, and behind them the thousands seized across Colombia every year. We bought land, biologists and scientists joined, and what began in an apartment is now a 500-hectare reserve.

Add a Loros day to an itinerary and that’s the work your travelers step into — and the story they take home.

Alejandro Rigatuso with baby Beethoven in a cardboard box, Cartagena 2019
Alejandro Rigatuso and Beethoven · Cartagena, 2019 — the foundation’s first parrot.

You already know the hard part of a nature program: the operator on the ground.

The weakest link in most conservation itineraries is the local supplier — variable guides, unverifiable impact, safety you can’t audit from a desk. We were built to remove that risk.

Every Loros experience is operated by our own staff, not subcontracted. Our release method is published, peer-reviewed, and openly documented. Our impact is counted, not narrated. When you put a Loros day in your itinerary, you’re adding the one part of the trip you don’t have to worry about.

Why we’re the easy part of your program

We own the experienceWe can prove the impactWe’re easy to sell
Bilingual guides on our own staff. Max 5 guests per guide. No subcontracting — the team your travelers meet is ours.A published release study (72% one-year survival, peer-reviewed · Bird Conservation International), open protocols, live impact counters. None of this is a marketing claim — it’s all auditable.Door-to-door from Cartagena hotels. One hour each way. Half-day or full-day. Slots in any existing Cartagena program.

One reserve. Eight ways to slot it into your itinerary.

All experiences run along The Wildlife Freedom Journey — the real working route our team walks every day to return rescued parrots and macaws to the wild. Guests don’t watch the work; they join it. Every option runs 6 hours, max 5 guests per guide, door-to-door from Cartagena, with our own bilingual team — never subcontracted.

ExperienceBest forDurationIntensityGroup cap
The Dawn Watch (birdwatching)Birding & nature operators6hLow–moderate5 / guide
Sanctuary Volunteer DayPurpose / impact programs6hLow5 / guide
The Liberation Trail (UTV safari)Families & comfort-led groups6hLow5 / guide
The Highland Ride (horseback)Slow-travel & scenic6hLow–moderate5 / guide
The Ranger Patrol (ATV)Adventure & adrenaline6hModerate5 / guide
Monkey’s Creek TrekFit adventure travelers6hHigh5 / guide
UTV + Horseback at sunsetTwo-in-one / golden-hour6hLow–moderate5 / guide
Tití Reintroduction VolunteerPrimate / species-focus6hLow5 / guide

What every option includes: private door-to-door transport from Cartagena · breakfast & lunch from the farm · bilingual guide · all activities · one native tree planted per traveler · conservation contribution. No hidden optionals.

Modular by buyer

  • For DMCs — White-label friendly. We operate under your brand on the ground if needed, deliver the impact data you report to travelers, and keep your customers yours.
  • For luxury + conservation — Private-only on request. Single-group departures, customizable depth, and a conservation narrative backed by a Cambridge paper — not a brochure.
  • For birding & nature specialists — Specialist-grade. eBird hotspot, 200+ species, target endemics (Forpus spengeli, Ortalis garrula), and free-flying released amazons and macaws you won’t see on a standard Caribbean itinerary — all backed by peer-reviewed work.

On the ground

What your travelers will actually see

Real moments from the reserve — wildlife under rehabilitation, free-flying macaws, and the trails your clients ride and walk. Every photo is ours, shot on site.

Scarlet macaws in free flight over the reserve near Cartagena
UTV safari along the reserve trails
Critically endangered cotton-top tamarin in the tropical dry forest
Hiking the tropical dry forest ridge at the reserve
Keel-billed toucan — birdwatching at the reserve
Horseback riding through the reserve near Cartagena
Rehabilitated parrots at the sanctuary near Cartagena
Scarlet macaw (Ara macao) at the Los Loros reserve

Impact your marketing team can actually use.

Your travelers want measurable good, and your competitors publish metrics for it. Here’s yours — per traveler, traceable, ready to put on your own page.

  • 1 native tree planted by each guest, in the restoration zone, geo-logged.
  • A share of every booking funds active rehabilitation of rescued birds.
  • Each visit feeds citizen-science data — eBird checklists and parrot-sighting records.

Every metric on this page links to a source. That’s the difference between an impact claim and an impact program.

The reserve, in numbers

Auditable impact you can stand behind

  • 100+

    Birds released and site-faithful

  • 150+

    Birds in active rehabilitation

  • 500 ha

    Protected tropical dry forest

  • 20,000+

    Native trees planted

  • 72%

    One-year survival of released parrots

    Peer-reviewed · Bird Conservation International

  • 1,000+

    Parrots seized per year in Colombia · the reason we exist

Behind the experience

The conservation your travelers fund

Every booking funds active conservation: artificial nest boxes, feeder stations, and 500 hectares of protected tropical dry forest — one of the most threatened ecosystems in the Colombian Caribbean.

Macaw in a nesting cavity in the tropical dry forest
Parrot peering from the entrance of an artificial nest box
Macaws at a feeder station in the reserve
Parakeets at a hanging feeder
Panoramic view of the reserve's 500 hectares
Protected tropical dry forest at the reserve near Cartagena

Don’t take our word for it.

Our free-flight release method for Amazona ochrocephala is published in Bird Conservation International (Cambridge University Press, 2026), co-authored with Texas A&M, Liberty Wings and CARDIQUE. Full protocols are open on our site. Read the paper (DOI).

“Real nature, real animals, real experience — nothing touristy or fake about it.”

— Maps51, Tripadvisor

“A great opportunity to view three species of macaws and numerous parrot species being rehabilitated to be released.”

— Peter S., Viator

“The foundation’s work is truly inspiring.”

— berekum-ghana, Tripadvisor

Verify on Tripadvisor · GetYourGuide · Airbnb · Viator.

A released parrot, feeding wild again

A yellow-crowned Amazon feeds on wild papayote flowers in the reserve — exactly the outcome our peer-reviewed release protocol is built to produce.

See it before you sell it.

We host familiarization visits for operators evaluating Loros as a supplier. Come walk the reserve, meet the team, and judge the experience the way your travelers will — the best way to know it’s right for your program.

The reserve, up close

See the 500-hectare reserve your clients will explore — then come walk it yourself on a familiarization visit before you put it in a single itinerary.

See it before you sell it

Request a FAM visit

We host familiarization visits for operators evaluating Loros as a supplier. Walk the reserve, meet the team, and judge it the way your travelers will.

Familiarization visit

No card payment. We reply by email · info@loros.org · WhatsApp +57 320 696 0469

Built to plug into your operation.

Trade rates+

Net rates available to registered operators. Request the operator pack for the current rate sheet.

Capacity+

Small by design (5 guests per guide, for animal welfare). Multiple parallel groups and private departures available with notice.

Lead time & calendar+

Bookings confirmed on a rolling calendar; high-season blocks bookable in advance.

Cancellation (trade)+

Operator terms differ from our consumer policy; defined in the operator pack.

Insurance & safety+

Liability coverage in place; safety briefings on every departure; reduced-mobility alternatives available.

Languages+

Spanish & English standard. Other languages on request with notice.

Legal & compliance+

Fundación Loros, NIT 901.597.480-2; CARDIQUE Resolución 1972/2022; non-profit. Documentation in the pack.

Payment+

Invoiced terms for trade partners.

Add the day they’ll remember most.

Travelers routinely call this the highlight of their Colombia trip. Give yours that day — and the impact story to go with it.

Direct contact: info@loros.org · WhatsApp +57 320 696 0469.

For tour operators, DMCs & travel designers

Request trade rates & availability

Net rates for registered operators. Tell us about your program and we'll send the current rate sheet and calendar.

Trade enquiry · no card payment

No card payment. We reply by email · info@loros.org · WhatsApp +57 320 696 0469