Gallery: Volunteering with Albrifron Monkeys at Inti Wara Yassi!

In the back of her mind, Lynette is thinking 'you stink, you stink, you stink'.

In the back of her mind, Lynette is thinking ‘you stink, you stink, you stink’.19-Sep-2009 14:47, Canon Canon EOS 400D DIGIT, 5.6, 38.0mm, 0.01 sec, ISO 400

On the 5th September 2009 Lynette and I finally made it to Inti Wara Yassi headquarters in Villa Tunari, Bolivia for a spot of volunteering with monkeys. We’d meant to spend two months here originally, but having had too much fun everywhere else it was stripped down to the bare minimum two weeks only. On the way we’d heard many stories of the place, both of its hard work and how many had been hospitalised through bites from various animals. Would we survive unscathed? Would we be able to leave? Would we even be able to find the place?

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Emergency News: Illegal Road is destroying Inti Wara Yassi Animal Refuge!

The digger destruction to build the illegal road.

The digger destruction to build the illegal road.

It’s Friday afternoon and I’m heading back to the ‘office’ after lunch; a wooden shack covered in chicken wire. As I approach, so does the unexpected and unwelcome sound of heavy machinery. When I’m less than ten metres from work, I see men with machetes hacking away indiscriminately at vegetation; these people not gardeners. Helplessly I watch a huge clanking and smoking digger snapping the enormous trees that normally surround my day like twigs, and a 15m recently decapitated log comes crashing down into my path. Article updated!

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