Conservation participation programs

Real processes of rehabilitation, restoration, and education.

Fundación Loros · Programs

They aren't visits. They're fieldwork.

We are a parrot sanctuary and a tropical dry forest restoration project in Villanueva, Bolívar.

Our programs are not tours or attractions: they are immersive experiences where each participant works alongside the team on the real tasks that sustain the sanctuary. You walk, you plant, you feed, you monitor. You leave with learning because you leave with work done.

How they work

Each program is organized into subgroups that rotate through the sanctuary's stations: aviaries, nursery, monitoring sectors, restoration areas. This guarantees small groups, personal attention, and exposure to every dimension of the work.

Each subgroup receives specific missions guided by a caretaker or biologist on the team. These aren't demonstrations: they are the same tasks we do every day to sustain this place. If the mission is releasing a bird, you're part of the process. If the mission is planting ten trees, you plant them.

At the end of the day we hold a joint closing where each subgroup shares what they learned and what the team recorded about wildlife, restoration, or safety. That's where individual work becomes collective knowledge.

Core activities

What you do in any program

These five activities are the heart of every visit. The audience changes; the practices don't.

Walks in the tropical dry forest
Guided walks through sectors of the dry forest with a biologist from the team. You learn to read the most threatened ecosystem in the Colombian Caribbean: which species live there, how it regenerates, what signs tell us it's healthy or stressed.
Native tree planting
You plant native tropical dry forest trees in restoration sectors. It's not symbolic: each tree is part of a regeneration plan with follow-up. You learn which species to plant, when, and why.
Wildlife monitoring
You join the team on documented observation routes. You record species, behaviors, and locations. That data feeds the reports that sustain long-term conservation work.
Food preparation for birds
In the sanctuary kitchen you prepare the diets of psittacines in rehabilitation: fruits, seeds, supplements. Each ration has a medical and nutritional purpose according to the bird's stage of recovery.
Environmental enrichment
You build and place elements in the aviaries that stimulate the birds' natural behavior: perches, toys, food puzzles. That's what prepares them to be wild again.