🥳Are you all ready for next weeks Merazonia Meet-Up? We are! Ex-volunteers @diede0705 and @sannevdm96 have made an evening programme while still keeping enough time for chatting and getting to know other ex-volunteers. 💬 One tip before coming: take a look at the @merazonia_refuge instagram page, it might help with one of the activities... 🤫 It is still possible to sign up via the link in our bio, hope to see you there! 🍃 #merazonia #wildlifeconservation #meetup #ecuador #utrecht

🌿Are you all ready to get together and share memories at our Merazonia Meet up? We are! And we are also excited to share that the meeting is going to take place in 'de Domkop' in Utrecht. From 8pm you are welcome to walk in (or earlier if you want 😉) and at 8.30pm we will start with a short quiz to get the evening started. 🙌🏼Feel welcome to join! You can still sign up through the link in our bio. #wildlifeconservation #merazonia #ecuador #netherlands #utrecht

Help @merazonia_refuge reach their goal of raising $5000 this #GIVINGTUESDAY 🙏 Just like donations helped Anteater Federico be returned to the wild recently, your support will aid Merazonia in their next release project: the woolly monkey babies along with adults Fonzi and Carmiña! 🐒 (they’ll be providing more info on this soon 👀) 👉 Funds raised will also help start 2023 on the right financial foot, providing an important buffer for new animals received, as well as supporting the expensive rehab journeys of those already residing at the centre. 💚 Your donations make a difference, no matter how great or small! 📸: @wanderingstew . . . #givingtuesday #givebacktuesday #giveback #fundraise #wildliferescue #wildliferehab #wildlife #loveanimals #nonprofit #donate #helpus #helpthem #charity #community

🙌🏼Apart from putting together a nice programme for entertainment, Jungle Groove is a place for connection. Old volunteers can tell stories about their experiences and answer questions from potential new volunteers and professional ecologists can talk with nature lovers. There is no place like Jungle Groove to meet like-minded people and have interesting conversations. 🐒Here you see our on-site manager Jeni giving a talk about the important work we do at Merazonia. She never fails to get everyone excited about Merazonia! We also hope to bring some more exciting news soon.... 🌿🦋Stay tuned! @merazonia_refuge #wildlife #rehabilitation #ecuador #junglegroove #festival #merazonia #rainforest #wildlifeconservation #conservation

🛖Spot the differences between the two bodega's! The first one is the bodega in Merazonia, which is used to keep fruit and vegetables for all the animals and volunteers. This is also the place where every morning, all the volunteers meet to start the day by chopping fruit and veggies for the animals. During Jungle Groove, the bodega is the central place to meet at the festival! At the bodega, you can find all information Jungle Groove and Merazonia related, together with different merch and art attributes that will be for sale. See you there next year! 🐒 #wildlife #ecuador #junglegroovefestival #festival #rehabilitation #merazonia #rainforest #conservation

💚One of @merazonia_refuge’s most enthusiastic coördinators Kaya showing people what Merazonia does and what sort of animals we have! Jungle Groove is not only a place where we want to share memories, joy and have a good time together. We also want to make people aware of the illegal animal trade that is still happening everyday in Ecuador and more countries in South America. Luckily we have people like Kaya who can turn these heavy subjects into nice conversations and show the results of Merazonia's hard work! 👉🏽See you at Jungle Groove 2023 for more stories about our beautiful animals 🐒🦋 #merazonia #junglegroovefestival #wildlife #ecuador #rainforest #conservation #festival

🎉First of all: thank you for the responses to our last post! We would love to see everyone next year at Jungle Groove 💃🏾 🐒Last editions line up was already quite special and we will soon start organising next year's programme. What would you like to see, do or hear? Anything Merazonia, rainforest or fun related can be suggested! #merazonia #junglegroovefestival #wildlife #ecuador #rainforest #conservation

🌿On this #worldrainforestday we bring you the exciting news that Jungle Groove is finally back!! In 2023 we're going to bring you loads of inspiring talks, great artists, good food and a lot of positive energy! 👉🏽 Next year's edition is going to be held in the Netherlands. The exact date still has to be set, but it will be someday in September 🥳 Are you ready for another #onedayfortherainforest? Stay tuned for Jungle Groove 2023! 💃🏾🕺🏼

Unfortunately we have some sad news Merazonians! We are really sorry to let you know that due to the Covid 19 crisis we are not going to be able to hold our Jungle Groove charity festival this year 😔🌿⁣ ⁣ We were really looking forward to putting on a bigger and better show for round two but don’t worry guys! We do intend to keep Jungle Groove and its positive vibes going in the future.. 😎🙈🤘⁣ ⁣ Stay tuned for other fundraising initiatives that we’re working on but for the moment we hope you and your loved ones are keeping safe where ever you are in the world 🙏 @merazonia_refuge ⁣ ⁣ #junglegroovefestival #charity #fundraiser #ecuador #wildlife #festival #merazoniarefuge #conservation ⁣ ⁣

The Howler stage - where the fun happened... Who is coming this year? September 12th save the date 😉🙈🐒 @merazonia_refuge #junglegroovefestival #merazonia #woodstock2.0 #savethedate #ecuador #charity #wildlife

And that’s a wrap 🎉 We’re as happy as Chilli the Howler monkey is when she’s getting stuck into a piece of fruit because our first ever arts auction was a success! 👏🤣 A massive thank you to everyone who got involved and made a bid for some incredible paintings 🙏 The Merazonia-inspired artworks were donated to us through our Jungle Groove Charity Festival which was held in the UK last month. Congratulations to Ben Birch who won both the capuchin painting and the macaw, Fine Joe who won the beautiful butterfly and Carol Mutter who won the oncilla portrait 👏 Thank you so much to all of you for supporting our cause - that’s an extra £180 that will be going to our centre and for us every donation helps! Grand total of what was made through Jungle Groove Festival coming soon... 😎 #auction #merazoniajunglegroove #paintings #fundraising #merazonia #ecuador

*ITS TIME TO AUCTION!! 👏👏👏 Who's interested in getting their hands on a beautiful, one of a kind, Merazonia inspired oil painting!? 🎨🙏 If you are interested in grabbing your very own Merazonia artwork to hang at home, have a flick through and make a bid by leaving a comment below 👇 or by sending us a private message if you’re feeling sneaky 😉 Each painting has a starting bid of £18 and all funds raised will go directly to @merazonia_refuge ofcourse 👊 We were overwhelmed by the support and backing we received from the public in the run up to our first ever Jungle Groove last month 💛 Support came in many different forms - some even spent hours painting amazing artworks of our animals in the run up to our festival! Two lovely artists - Louise and Don - who had never heard of Merazonia before donated FIVE incredible artworks to our festival. They insisted that all funds raised would go directly to our cause 🐒🌳 How awesome is that!? AUCTION CLOSES on Saturday Oct 26th which means you’ve got one week to get your bid in people! Good luck... 😉👏 #auction #merazonia #merazonia_refuge #ecuador #wildlife #fundraising #artwork #rainforest #merazoniajunglegroove

STAY TUNED for an auction that will be going live this week... 👀 How incredible is this painting?! 🙏This beautiful piece is one of FIVE Merazonia inspired paintings that were donated by the wonderful public to Jungle Groove 🐒 We were continually surprised and grateful for the enthusiasm, support and love we received for @merazonia_refuge in the run up to our festival 💛 Other paintings feature a vibrant Blue Morpho butterfly, Houdini the macaw, a wonderful portrait of capuchins Tina and Cameron and even a beautiful portrait of one of our ocelots that have come through the centre over the years.... 👏🦋🎨 #merazonia #auction #paintings #festival #junglegroove #jungle #animals #oilpaints #art #wildlifeart #wildlifeartist #wildlifeartistoftheyear #wildlifeconservation

Where the magic happened ✨ We love this photo of our ‘Bodega’ that was the hub for all things Merazonia at Jungle Groove 👏 A massive thank you to the wonderful team over at @tipiunique who donated this beautiful tipi for the day. Thanks for getting behind Jungle Groove and for supporting our cause! 🐒🌳🌎 For more information about these wonderful tipis visit https://tipiunique.com #merazoniajunglegroove #hathersage #merazonia #thepeakdistrict #ecuador #wildliferehabilitation #amazonrainforest

Did somebody say... TINA COLADA?! 🍹🤣 Swipe right 👉 to check out the magical Merazonia inspired cocktails that were customised especially for our Jungle Groove festival goers by the wonderful guys over at @adamsandrose 👏 Thanks Darren and Carrie! We can’t wait to see what you have in store for us next year.. 🙈🍸 #merazoniajunglegroove #merazonia #ecuador #festival #hathersage #cocktails #gin #junglegroove

Jungle Groove was kicked off this year with the oh so smooth melodies of the wonderful Myles Knight 🎶 👏 Thanks for getting our crowd warmed up and for starting us all off in the right groove @mylesknightuk 🤙🌿 #merazoniajunglegroove #merazonia #festival #hathersage #ecuador #rainforest #amazon #charityfestival

We are so happy with the amount of children and families that were involved with Jungle Groove! 🥳 Getting young people on board is one of the vital first steps when it comes to solving our urgent rainforest crisis 🌳🌳🌳 A huge thank you to Grindleford, Bamford and Hope Valley Primary schools for welcoming us to their assemblies in the run up to Jungle Groove. Together, we brought the rainforest to your classrooms and your enthusiasm for Merazonia’s work was contagious 👏 Swipe right 👉 to see some of the awesome artworks that came of our visits including two wonderful banners which hung next to our main Howler stage on the day! 🙈😎🎶 #merazoniajunglegroove #rainforest #amazon #ecuador #conservation #merazonia

WELCOME GROOVERS! To @merazonia_refuge’s official Jungle Groove Festival account.... 🙈🎶 Yes it’s official.... it’s happening again next year and will be an annual event of ours for years to come.... Exciting times for us in the Jungle 😆🐒🌳 Stay tuned for photos and videos of our first ever festival which went ahead last weekend in #hathersage Uk 🤙 #merazoniajunglegroove #festival #uk #ecuador #rainforest #conservation #wildlife