Employee and Volunteer Info

Do Something Amazing

Thank you for your interest in helping the monkeys at Jungle Friends. We are always looking for mature, compassionate, long-term volunteers, staff, and interns with the willingness to learn, acquire new knowledge and the desire to make a difference. Please join our team!

Almost Wild is a 7-minute documentary about the monkeys who call Jungle Friends home and why the monkeys are here.

Life in captivity can never match life in the wild, so we provide the monkeys a safe, loving "Almost Wild" home.

Employment Application

Already have a great job, no worries, we have volunteer positions and opportunities of all kinds!

This is a video of the Jungle Friends rules. We can schedule you weekly or you can contact us when you will be available.

Volunteer Registration

Intern Information Packet
JFPS Caregiving + Job Descriptions
Administrative Job Descriptions

Directions
What to wear and bring to Volunteer
Illness & Accident Protocols

At Jungle Friends we have three distinctly different areas.

Kansas is where you will find capuchins and spider monkeys.
Emerald City is home to our squirrel monkeys.
Munchkinland is where our marmosets and tamarins reside.
Lindsey explains the Tricky Job of Housing Callitrichids
Sara describes Feeding the Squirrel Monkeys.

Capuchins

Marmosets

Spider Monkeys

Squirrel Monkeys

Tamarins

At Jungle Friends we have special-needs monkeys -- many suffer from stereotypical behaviors, while others are blind, diabetic, or amputees. We have monkeys with heart disease, thyroid conditions, and metabolic bone disease. Many rounds of medications are given out each day.

Thanks to Bob Barker we have an on-site medical clinic where our veterinarians can perform procedures so the monkeys do not have to leave the sanctuary.

This allows the monkeys to recuperate among humans they are familiar with.

Donate to Medical fund

We provide permanent high-quality care for nearly 200 New World monkeys who have been confiscated by the authorities, used in entertainment, former "pets", or retired from laboratory research. We appreciate your commitment to make a positive impact in the lives of our monkey friends.

Lots of Broken Stuff to Fix

Plenty of Planting and Landscaping

Hundreds of Monkey Bowls to Wash

Enhancing Habitats

Assist our Veterinarian

There is something for everyone at Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary -- from produce chopping to diet preparations, mowing to tree trimming, monkey laundry to monkey medications and everything in-between.
Many of our monkeys are elderly. We have had capuchins live into their 50s here at Jungle Friends.

Watch KC and Bongo engaging in playtime. Both monkeys are in their 40's and still going strong!

Visit Give Cloud

Join us in our advocacy efforts:

Pets: Kari on Capitol Hill -- Captive Primate Safety Act
Entertainment: Join us to Fight Animal Cruelty, TEAPSPA.
Research: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Sanctuary -- AFTER ACT
Captive Primate Safety Act
After Act

Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary is a smoke-free, drug-free workplace and do not allow tobacco products on the property. As a vegan organization, Jungle Friends does not allow the consumption or storage of animal products at the sanctuary. Please be sure to look over our Procedures Manual.

If you know anyone interested in volunteering, interning or employment, please forward this email to them so they can apply. I look forward to working with you and introducing your friends to the monkeys and our mission

Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary
Founder and Executive Director

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P. P. S. Already have a job? Not enough time to volunteer? No problem...
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