Mission
Project Green Jungle is dedicated to providing at-risk indigenous communities in developing nations with an opportunity to gain work experience, transferrable skills, and capacity building revenues. Employees of Project Green Jungle will be native people living in the region of our field stations. Project Green Jungle achieves conservation through Responsible Commercialization.
FITZ is a 501(c)3 Federal US non-profit corporation ID #SC-10577, offering education through captive breeding facilities. The Florida International Teaching Zoo's secluded facility allows for emphasis on endangered species management. The teaching zoo staff continues to offer off-site educational programs and expanded distance learning courses. Utilizing modern principles of zoo exhibit design and captive reproduction, the zoo specializes in selected species, including Jaguars, nene geese, dingoes, and African patas monkeys. Future projects will include elephant reproduction, a free flight aviary and an expansion of our projects to include wildlife and conservation throughout the world. Project Green Jungle is the first project of our expanded mission, taking place on the Caribbean Slope of Costa Rica. The program start-up is funded by donations, with a special emphasis on creating a sustainable income in the future for both our project and the communities involved.
The following is a brief summary of services and products we plan to offer:
- Bio-diversity surveys: Through Eco-tourism, research fellowships, and collecting trips, Green Jungle will record data, assimilate and distribute it to the scientific community.
- Community Center: Indigenous communities will be invited to take part in community events and training seminars through the educational facility at our field station.
- Green Jungle Field Station: This field station will act as a working lab, and computer center and captive research facility for researchers, eco-travelers, and volunteers.
- Venom Co-op: Venom will be collected to be synthesized as antivenin for donation to hospitals and clinics throughout the natural range of the animals involved.
- Captive Breeding facility: Select species will be bred and commercialized to fund various conservation, research and social programs.
- Garden: An organic farm and botanical garden will be constructed for medicinal, nourishment, and educational uses.
- Visitor quarters: Visitor quarters will be the third phase of construction. They will provide housing for researchers, as well as volunteers, and workers if needed.
Eligibility to participate:
Academic, professional, and independent field researchers are invited to contact us for integration into our
captive wildlife facilities and wildlife survey programs.
Volunteers are screened through our website, through social network sites, and via personal interviews in the
regions of our programs.
Staff: The current non-profit staff is experienced wildlife professionals, with a strong interest in business
development. Employees are local indigenous and native peoples who exhibit forward thinking, as well as
people who are chosen based on their needs and abilities.
Today, The Florida International Teaching Zoo has the reputation of successfully breeding and keeping it's
animals in healthy secure environment. With an accomplished veterinarian as president, and a board with
many years of experience in captive wildlife husbandry, FITZ is proud to diversify and evolve into a social,
economic, cultural, and environmental conservation project like Green Jungle.