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The Sloth Sanctuary of Costa Rica (Spanish: Santuario de Perezosos de Costa Rica) is a privately owned animal rescue center located near the city of Cahuita. The Sanctuary is dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, research, and release of injured or orphaned sloths. [1] Tours of the Sanctuary are offered to the public.
The Sloth Sanctuary of Costa Rica is one-of-a-kind. What began as an unexpected rescue on a ruined piece of land has grown into a sanctuary that has saved over 1,000 sloths and educated countless ...
The Sloth Institute Costa Rica is a small, not-for-profit organization based in Manuel Antonio, close to Manuel Antonio National Park, Costa Rica, dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of sloths. It often takes in orphaned or injured sloths, which require care.
Sloths are victims of animal trafficking where they are sold as pets. However, they generally make very poor pets, as they have such a specialized ecology. [62] The Sloth Institute Costa Rica is known for caring, rehabilitating and releasing sloths back into the wild. [63] Also in Costa Rica, the Aviarios Sloth Sanctuary cares for sloths
The Osa Wildlife Sanctuary (Spanish: Fundación Santuario Silvestre de Osa) or Caña Blanca Wildlife Sanctuary, is an animal rescue center located in Osa Peninsula in southwestern Costa Rica. The Sanctuary is accessible only by boat and is completely surrounded by Piedras Blancas National Park .
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The Sloth Conservation Foundation (SloCo) is a non-profit organisation based in Costa Rica that is dedicated to the protection of sloths living in wild and human-modified habitats through research, education and community-based conservation. [1] [2] [3] SloCo was founded in 2017 by sloth researcher Dr. Rebecca Cliffe. [4] [5]
Rebecca Cliffe (born May 15, 1990) is a British zoologist, award-winning conservationist, [2] and one of the leading experts on sloth biology and ecology. [3] [4] She is the Founder and executive director of The Sloth Conservation Foundation and author of the book Sloths: Life in the Slow Lane.