Jesse and I took a launcha across the lake to the village of San Miguel. There, we walked about 45 minutes through a dirt road to get to ARCAS, an animal rescue operation.
This is an amazing rescue operation. They recieve about 400 animals a year that are rescued from illegal trafficking. They only accep local, native animals, such as howler and spider monkeys, macaws, ocelets, whitetailed deer, and many other birds... coatimundis have also found homes here.
The white tailed deer are considered endangered down here because of a lot of poaching, so ARCAS has a breeding and rehabilitation program.
All of their animals are divided between those to be set back to the wild and those who can not be due to amputations, sickness, or other problems that would lead them to be quick prey.
Did you know that 70% of animals trafficked die during transportation?
I would like to work here. The people are humble and doing God´s work. One of the birds talked to Jesse, saying "hola, hola" and then it continued in Spanish and we figured out that it was talking about the man raking out their area. The bird was saying "rake time, here it comes, time for the rake" It was funny.
Jesse´s friend parrot... the talkative one.
The pack of coatimundi´s that snuck up behind me. I heard a rustling and turned around and there were four of them staring right at me, then we all got scared, and once I kneeled down and waited there were about 12 that were eating in the area I was standing. They are interesting mammals.
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