Rescate Wildlife Rescue Center
https://www.rescatewildlife.org
Rescate Wildlife Rescue Center – Costa Rica
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Our commitment to wildlife rescue, release and conservation in Costa Rica
Rescate Wildlife Rescue Center (former Rescate Animal Zooave) is a registered non-profit wildlife rehabilitation facility founded in 1989 and located on 34 acres of natural tropical forest in the province of Alajuela, Costa Rica (see our address).
Our mission is to protect and restore the country’s biodiversity through wildlife rehabilitation, endangered species breeding, habitat preservation and the provision of lifetime care for non-releasable animals.
There are three main centers at Rescate’s facility in Alajuela:
- A state-of-the-art Wildlife Rehabilitation Center
- An Endangered Wildlife Breeding Center
- A Lifetime Animal Sanctuary with more than 125 species of animals.
Over 2,700 wild animals are admitted to Rescate on an annual basis including sloths, jaguars, monkeys, tapirs, pumas and coyotes as well as a wide variety of birds, small mammals and reptiles.
Roughly 800 of the birds, mammals, and reptiles that have been rescued cannot be released due to health or behavioral reasons. Non-releasable endangered species are maintained in the Endangered Wildlife Reproduction Center, where they have an opportunity to contribute to the survival of their species through successful breeding and release of off-spring. Non-releasable wildlife of more common species are provided with lifetime sanctuary in the Conservation Park Sanctuary.
