COCHAHUASI ANIMAL SANCTUARY
The Cochahuasi Animal Sanctuary a organization, dedicated to rescue wildlife the animals are recovered from illicit trafficking, black market and those who have suffered the mistreatment of man, many of them will no longer be able to be released since they have a dependence on human beings or in other cases are totally mutilated or damaged, which makes it impossible for them to return to nature since they would become an easy prey for hunters or other animals of the same species.
In the animal sanctuary located in Cochahuasi at kilometer 22 of the Cusco Pisac Road, we are permanently concerned about giving them a better quality of life.
For this we worry a lot in their diets, cleaning of their cabins, recreation to avoid stress. So, we have specialized staff such as our veterinarian, nutritionist, site guides, volunteers. etc.
Mission of the Cochahuasi Animal Sanctuary
In the Cochahuasi animal sanctuary we have as a permanent mission to educate all our visitors, so that they are explained the history of each one of the animals of Cuzco housed in our center, thus generating an ethic of conservation and preservation of wildlife, as well as domestic animals.
Vision of Cochahuasi Cusco
The animals of Cusco and Peru that live in the sanctuary deserve due attention, especially the Andean condor (Vultur gryphus, included in Appendix I) of the CITES convention, this is the largest flying bird in the world, observing its weight and wingspan measuring approximately 3.50 meters
Being in danger of extinction deserves due attention so we have the authorization of our Cusco condor conservation program, for this we have implemented our project of release, rehabilitation, and reproduction of this species in the zoo Cusco.
Where is Cochahuasi?
Cochahuasi has become a tourist attraction near the city of Cusco, we are located at kilometer 22 of the Cusco Pisac Road, a, half an hour trip from the Plaza de Amas of Cusco, local buses leave from PUPUTI street, there are several terminals that go along the route to Pisac. To come just must indicate that they are going to the Cochahuasi zoo where the condors are.
We welcome national and local foreign visitors, for this our rates are accessible in such a way that; Most of our visiting public can enjoy and admire the fauna of Cuzco that the zoo has.
We currently house more than 89 individuals of different species such.
Andean condor, Andean puma.Andean cat. Macaws,Parrots,Eagles,Andean deer,Andean bears,Turtles and others.
The vast majority of these animals have been used as pets in many cases they have used them to make public shows or in nightclubs, also many of them have damaged parts for example in the macaws they cut their feathers so that they cannot fly and so they do not escape from the place where they have them, In the case of condors, some of them arrived with broken wings or fractured legs, in the case of turtles that have suffered fractures in the shell.
We have Animals in endangered of Extinction in Peru, for this in the case of the Andean condor we have implemented our program of conservation and preservation of this species, which is disappearing from the Peruvian Andes.
This is how we try to give all our animals the best conditions suitable for their would be in the sanctuary, giving them for example the right temperature so that they do not suffer from cold, large enclosures, the best quality of food all of them first to prevent them from acquiring diseases And be able to have a good immune system,
All diets are species-specific which demand greater food consumption are the 3 Andean bears, one of them from Chanchamayo, the other from Cajamarca and finally from Ayacucho.
Released andean condor
The animal sanctuary of Cochahuasi on 09/29 /2019 released an Andean condor to nature, with its GPS, this is a device that serves to monitor it obtaining Data such as height, flight speed, temperature, nesting among other very important data to carry out research on this species to be able to preserve it in the future.
In our sanctuary we are aware that many people for different reasons are on purpose or because of ignorance that affect our wildlife animals; either by hunting them, injuring them for different marketing purposes or keeping them as pets.
Because a part of humanity puts at risk and in danger of extinction criticizes many species of wildlife, however, there is also another part of humanity that helps to make sanctuaries for animals, wildlife reserves, rescue centers, reproduction centers to save many of them.
The threats for our animals are:
Global encouragement, loss of natural habitats due to indiscriminate felling of trees, forest fires and lack of education to the population, illegal hunting, as well as commercialization etc.
The Santuario Animal de Cochahuasi was founded in 2008, in its more than 14 years it continues to fulfill its fundamental mission what is education, this mission is fulfilled accordingly to the implementation of our site guidance system where the vast majority of our visitors are explained the history of all the animals that houses the sanctuary, thus explaining the causes of extinction of these species, the possibility of release, rehabilitation, healing, readaptation to the natural habitat, in many cases the impossibility of their release, this due to the dependence they have generated with the contact of man or in other cases for the injuries they have suffered, which makes it impossible for them to return to the natural habitat.
We also have our volunteer program, through which volunteers interact with the animals giving them food, healing them, cleaning their rooms, preparing their diets, bathing them if it is etc.
Tourist Attraction
The animal sanctuary is a tourist attraction, being a place of recreation and recreation of our visitors, our goal in this case is to give the visitor the best possible experience so that he can take the best impression of the treatment and care of our animals, as well as the conservation plans we have for them. In this way all our visitors will have the opportunity to know a little more about their biological characteristics, habitat customs and even know the name of each of them, the empathy they have with the human being, as well as the indomitable be the case of the vicuña and so on.mentation of similar initiatives, which may resemble our mission and nurture their experience with ours.