Güira Oga: Puerto Iguazú animal rescue

You might be wondering “more animals?!”

Yup! More animals, this time at Güira Oga, an animal sanctuary that sits between Iguazú park and Puerto Iguazú.

It’s also the most biodiverse regions in Argentina. As I think I recall, they have barely 3% of the original land left, and much of it had to be reforested in the last 50-ish years. Aside from foresting the wood, the land has been used for planting soy and corn crops.

A few stats on the region’s biodiversity, it has:

• 3,148 species of vascular plants
• 1,125 species of vertibrets
• 274 species of fish
• 66 species of amphibians
• 114 species of reptiles
• 546 species of birds
• 124 species of mammals

One of the biggest problems in the area is actually animal injury on the roads. Animals are brought here that have been injured (often by cars), caught in illegal smuggling trade, or that need rehabilitation after people have tried to domesticate them.

The burrow owl might have been the most amusing, because it is so funny looking and acting. They scamper off quickly by foot, and live on the ground, burrowing into a nest on the floor.