Sponsor a Species
A foundation that shouldn't have to exist
Giving freedom back isn't opening a cage. It's teaching a whole flock to fly, to find food in the wild, to recognize a predator and to trust their own — until they can return as one and stay.
It's slow, hard, expensive work. It shouldn't have to exist. But it does — and it began with a single parrot.
Our story
How it all began
In 2019, in a Cartagena apartment, a green-and-yellow chick arrived in a cardboard box. They raised it by hand —a syringe, a spoon, the internet as the only vet— not yet knowing that this small green body would start something. They named him Beethoven. He was the very first.
Alejandro Rigatuso and Beethoven · Cartagena, 2019 — Fundación Loros' first parrot.
Read the full story →From one parrot to a reserve
In 2022, the environmental authority granted Alejandro a permit to rehabilitate parrots. A few arrived at first; soon, dozens. And behind them, thousands more — the ones seized in Colombia every year.
The foundation grew with them. It bought land so rehabilitated parrots could fly free again, and biologists and scientists —from Colombia and abroad— joined the work. What began in an apartment is now a reserve.
But the problem is vast, and that is why we need you.
What one parrot made possible
Years later, what once fit in a cardboard box is a reserve of over 500 hectares: hundreds of rescued birds and a whole community —volunteers, biologists, farmers, schools, scientists and environmental authorities— working to give a second chance to those who never should have lost their freedom.
The method you fund isn't just our experience: it's published, peer-reviewed science.
Published in · Peer-reviewedBird Conservation InternationalCambridge University Press · 2026 · Open accessWhat your sponsorship includes
- ✓Photos & videos of the rehabilitation process. Feeding, training, releases and monitoring.
- ✓Updates from our field rangers. What's happening on the ground, from the people who watch over them.
- ✓Updates from our veterinarian. Health, recovery and welfare notes.
- ✓A monthly report. Progress of the species' process, by email.
- ✓Testimonials from our team. Voices from the rangers, vets and trainers.
- ✓Recognition. Your name in our sponsors list and a mention on social media.
What you sponsor is a process — not a pet. When you sponsor a species you fund its rehabilitation and release process — food, veterinary care, free-flight training, post-release monitoring and the community work that keeps released birds safe.
Not sure which species?
Every sponsorship funds the same process — rescue, rehabilitation, free-flight training and release. Pick the one that moves you.