ACOBIA-DWAzoo is a not-for-profit organisation that cares for injured and orphaned amazonian manatees, and rehabilitates them for rerelease back into the wild. As part of their conservation work, they have a donation-funded education program that works with local communities, especially targeting children, which aims to educate them about the problems facing the manatee and about what they can do to preserve the few remaining animals. Participants can visit the manatee rescue centre in Iquitos, and ACOBIA-DWAzoo visits with local villages to engage the children with educational materials, games and sometimes manatees they are trying to release into the wild, which helps further engage the children.
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