Yana Cocha

Animal conservation at the cutting edge

I worked as a volunteer for a week at Yana Cocha and saw in raw detil what is involved in animal conservation in the Amazon. I fed, cleaned out and handled the animals (where safe) and experienced the...

A place to be apart of giving the animals a second chance, just come!

A second change for every animals brought here and cared for with so much personalized love. I was one of their more unusual volunteer, older at 59 but the joy and pleasure every thing I did during m...

Amazing Sanctuary

Yana Cocha is an amazing animal sanctuary. Each of the animals is loved and cared for. I volunteered there for 2 weeks and I learned so much. Raul treats the refuge like home and all of the volunteers...

Lovely visit

This is really well worth a visit. Set within lovely grounds, with many trees, shrubs etc. Good footpaths and interesting areas with streams, pools etc. Very interesting to see the abundance of wildli...

Good foundation, but not to visit

The foundation itself is doing great work, rescueing animals from all kinds of bad situations. So that's great and we totally support that. However, when you visit them, it's basically a zoo. We didn'...