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Once the animals are fully rehabilitated, [3] they are reintroduced into their natural habitats in protected areas within Costa Rica, including the Corcovado National Park. [4] The Osa Wildlife Sanctuary is a nonprofit organization that receives funds from volunteers, donations, and tours.
Kids Saving the Rainforest (KSTR) is a Costa Rica–based non-governmental non-profit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1999 to plant trees in depleted areas of the country, and to rescue, rehabilitate and, when possible, release the animals who live in these forests. Since its inception, Kids Saving the Rainforest has planted or is in the ...
The wildlife of Costa Rica comprises all naturally occurring animals, fungi and plants that reside in this Central American country. Costa Rica supports an enormous variety of wildlife, due in large part to its geographic position between North and South America, its neotropical climate, and its wide variety of habitats.
La Marina Wildlife Rescue Center (Spanish: Centro de Rescate La Marina), or La Marina Zoo is an animal rescue centre located 8.5 km northeast of Ciudad Quesada, between Palmera and Aguas Zarcas, in the Alajuela Province of Costa Rica. The centre is dedicated to the rehabilitation of mistreated, injured, orphaned, and/or confiscated animals.
Rescate Wildlife Rescue Center, formerly Rescate Animal Zoo Ave, is an urban park of approximately 14 hectares (35 acres), located in La Garita, [2] in the canton of Alajuela, Costa Rica. [3] It has an average altitude of 814 meters and is bounded to the north by the bed of the river Rio Poas.
The center was founded by the Italian biologist Sandro Alviani and his wife Encar García, a Catalan biologist, who runs it with help of volunteers from all around the world and hosts numerous mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. [4] The center also houses a large serpentarium of venomous and nonvenomous snakes native to Costa Rica.
Located in the Talamanca canton, the Jairo Mora Sandoval Gandoca-Manzanillo Mixed Wildlife Refuge is found at the southernmost Atlantic coast of Costa Rica, next to the border with Panama. It has two entrances, the first and main access is at the village of Manzanillo which provides services to this area and is the terminus of Route 256 , which ...
Caño Negro Wildlife Refuge is a Wildlife refuge, part of the Arenal Huetar Norte Conservation Area, in the northern part of Costa Rica twenty kilometers south of Los Chiles near the border with Nicaragua in the Alajuela province.