Wildlife in Rainforest

CHUCHINI is a protected area and situated on artificial pre-Columbian hills. These hills are built by the hydraulic civilisation more than 10.000 years ago. They built the mounds to stay dry in the rainy season. Every year, during the rainy season the area will flood and the hills become islands. The hydraulic civilisation named it ‘Chuchini’. Chuchini means in the language Mojeño Trinitario ‘House of the Jaguar’. During rainy season jaguars travel from far to rest on the islands. That is the reason why they call it house of the jaguar. Not only the jaguars use the islands to have a rest. Almost every animal in the area.

Chuchini is a protected area and the only safe place. Unfortunately, the surrounding area is under treat by deforestation, poaching, agriculture and other illegal activities. The animals come from far away to have a rest on the islands. To prevent the populations from collapsing we want to create more habitat by building 20 smaller islands around the existing islands. Basically we give the animals more chance to survive!

To create a little safe haven for the animals we make small adjustments in the area. We will build 20 islands and provide it with endemic fruit plants and trees. The vegetation that we will plant give the animals year round fruit and shelter possibilities.