La Senda Verde is a non-government organization dedicated to environmental education and the care of sick, mistreated and abandoned wildlife. It is a privately run animal refuge in the Yungas area of Bolivia along the Yungas Road. The organization was co-founded by Vicky Ossio and Marcelo Levy in 2003. In 2010, Corporación Minera de Bolivia began works on a gold mine in a riverbed of

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. In January 2010, the movement of the river channel caused by

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s machines flooded some parts of La Senda Verde. In the aftermath, Ossio said that the damage to the animal shelter had been tremendous.

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* {{official website, https://sendaverde.org/ Nature conservation in Bolivia Animal welfare organisations based in Bolivia