Lunes 09:30 - 11:00 11:30 - 13:00 Martes 09:30 - 11:00 11:30 - 13:00 Miércoles 09:30 - 11:00 11:30 - 13:00 Jueves 09:30 - 11:00 11:30 - 13:00 Viernes 09:30 - 11:00 11:30 - 13:00 Sábado 09:30 - 11:00 11:30 - 13:00 Domingo 09:30 - 11:00 11:30 - 13:00

Jaguar Rescue Center

Casa
Costa Rica
Puerto Viejo
Jaguar Rescue Center

www.jaguarrescue.foundation

EMAIL:
For Information and volunteering:
[email protected]

We are a non profit animal rescue center in Puerto Viejo Costa Rica, specializing in orphaned & injured jungle babies like monkeys and sloths.

22/08/2025

🦥 Lately, our clinic has been full of sloths, especially three-fingered sloths (Bradypus variegatus). From tiny juveniles to moms with babies, many have needed our care over the last months.

🌳 Sloths are the number one species we rescue, and while we usually see more two-fingered sloths, this year has brought us many three-fingered ones. Our vets work every day to make sure they get the right treatment and plenty of fresh leaves.

❤ Each sloth has their own story, their own challenges, and their own second chance at life. Seeing these gentle creatures recover reminds us why our work is so important.

✨Thanks to your support, we can keep giving these animals a second chance. If you’d like to help us continue this work, you can also donate.

20/08/2025

🥭 Meet the newest residents of our Birds’ Garden: Mango, Papaya & Guayaba!
These colorful trio are orange-chinned parakeets, all sadly confiscated after being kept as pets.

🐦 Mango and Papaya arrived together first, both had their wings clipped, leaving them unable to fly. Papaya also showed developmental issues in its wings, possibly from an old fracture or a poor diet in the past.

🌿 Later on, Guayaba joined them. Just like Mango and Papaya, his wings had also been cut, but his personality is a bit more independent.

🌳 Mango and Papaya now enjoy spending their days on a mini playground in the Birds’ Garden, Mango being the sweet one, while Papaya is a little sassy toward the others. Meanwhile, Guayaba prefers the larger playground where he can explore more on his own.

🌙 At night, all three share a cozy enclosure. You can meet them during our educational tours and learn more about their stories and the dangers the illegal pet trade poses to wild animals.

16/08/2025

😯 Some people ask us how we can recognize certain monkeys or sloths. For us, it’s simple, we work with them every day, and just like people, each of them has unique facial expressions and their own personality.

🥹 Today we want to share a special glow-up from one of our howler monkeys: Thavo.

🐒 We’ve cared for Thavo since May 2023. As a baby, he was often crying and preferred to stay by himself. But now, more than two years later, he has grown into a strong and confident monkey. He’s no longer that scared little baby; he acts tough and keeps his independent spirit.

🌳 Thavo is almost ready to take the next big step: moving to La Ceiba to complete his rehabilitation program, where he’ll learn the final skills he needs to be rewilded.

12/08/2025

🐾 Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve seen a big increase in baby rescues, and our nursery is working around the clock to give these little ones the best care possible, which means providing them with the right nutrition.

🍼 Every baby in our care, from sloths and monkeys to kinkajous and more, needs goat’s milk in their special food mixes, and we are now running out due to the recent surge in rescues. The brand we use, Meyenberg Goat Milk, isn’t available in Costa Rica, and we’ve learned through experience that it is the easiest for the animals to digest.

👉 If you’re visiting us soon, bringing a can bring some along would be an incredible help. You can find it in the next link.

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08/08/2025

🍨 It’s been over four months since we helped Gelato. In case you didn’t know, Gelato is a juvenile great green macaw who fell from a nest right in front of our center, not once, but twice!

🩹 The first fall left him without injuries, but the second was far more serious. Gelato broke his left humerus and fractured his clavicle. Our veterinary team performed surgery and placed a pin in his wing. Sadly, despite the procedure, the wing will never be functional for flight, which means Gelato cannot be released back into the wild.

🌳 These days, he spends some hours in the macaw enclosure, getting to know his new companions: Guacamole, another great green macaw, and Lala, a scarlet macaw. They interact a little, but we’re taking baby steps to ensure he can eventually share the space with Scarlet and Panettone.

🍀 Wishing him all the luck as he adjusts to this new chapter of his life!

06/08/2025

🌧 It’s been a couple of rainy weeks in the Caribbean, and two weeks ago, after one particularly stormy night, little Ajonjolí was found on the ground, alone and in need of help.

📣 We rushed to rescue her, but we also knew her mother might still be nearby. While checking on her, our team recorded her cries. Once we had the recording, we used a technique called The Speaker Method, where we played the baby’s cry in the canopy to try and locate the mother.

😔 Sadly, Ajonjolí’s mother never showed up, and she was left in our care.

🐾 She’s still a very tiny baby; her eyes just opened last week. But now that Tzatziki is all grown up and soon moving to the rehabilitation area, Ajonjolí will follow the same program. This will help her grow strong and wild, with the hope of one day returning to her home in the forest.

04/08/2025

🍀 Meet Lucky, the baby tamandua.

🪵 Lucky was found just over a month ago, alone in a small tree after spending the entire night without any sign of his mother. The people who contacted us waited throughout the day, hoping she would return, but she never did.

🐜 Thankfully, Lucky was in good health. Our vets gave him fluids and transferred him to our nursery. There, he spends most of his time either sleeping in his cozy enclosure or enthusiastically tearing into termite nests, he could spend hours doing it!

💫 Like all our young rescues, Lucky will follow a careful rehabilitation process. He’ll stay in the nursery until he reaches a certain weight and size, at which point he’ll move to our rehabilitation area to continue preparing for life in the wild.

02/08/2025

🤩 We bring you exciting news: we have a new volunteering program!

💪 Whether you’re a returning volunteer eager to come back or someone who’s been waiting for the chance to join our team but only has a short time available, our new 2-week volunteer program might be the perfect fit for you.

🌴Come experience the joy of caring for wildlife while enjoying everything the Caribbean has to offer. This program is designed for those who want to make a difference, even if they don’t have much time off.

🐾 Be part of something meaningful. Come volunteer with us and help protect the animals who need it most.

https://www.jaguarrescue.foundation/en-us/SupportUs/Volunteering/JRC2-WeeksVolunteerProgram

02/08/2025

⚡️ Electrocutions have been rising in recent months, and in just one heartbreaking month, we lost three howler monkeys we had rescued, raised, and released: Marcellus, Borneo, and Samburu.

😔 We spent years caring for them, watching them grow strong and wild again. Then, in a matter of seconds, they were gone, killed by uninsulated power lines.
These weren’t just rescue stories. These were animals we gave a second chance, the moment they came through our doors. It’s heartbreaking. We can’t keep losing the animals we’ve fought so hard to protect.

🌳 That’s why we launched Climb Without Fear, to insulate deadly transformers and build wildlife bridges so sloths, monkeys, and others can move safely through the trees.

☝ Donate today and give sloths, monkeys, and other wildlife a safe path through the canopy before we lose another life.
https://giving.classy.org/campaign/702992/donate

▪️Reminder: U.S. donors can give through Amigos of Costa Rica and receive a tax-deductible receipt.

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⚡️ Las electrocuciones han aumentado en los últimos meses, y en tan solo un mes desgarrador, perdimos a tres monos aulladores que habíamos rescatado, criado y liberado: Marcellus, Borneo y Samburu.

😔 Pasamos años cuidándolos, viéndolos crecer fuertes y volver a ser salvajes. Luego, en cuestión de segundos, se fueron, asesinados por cables eléctricos sin protección.
Estas no eran solo historias de rescate. Eran animales a los que les dimos una segunda oportunidad desde el momento en que cruzaron nuestras puertas. Es desgarrador. No podemos seguir perdiendo a los animales que tanto hemos luchado por proteger.

🌳 Por eso lanzamos la campaña Escala Sin Miedo, para aislar transformadores letales y construir puentes de vida silvestre, permitiendo que los perezosos, monos y otros animales se desplacen con seguridad por los árboles.

☝ Dona hoy y ayuda a que los perezosos, monos y otros animales salvajes tengan un camino seguro entre el dosel antes de que perdamos otra vida.
https://giving.classy.org/campaign/702992/donate

▪️Recordatorio: Los donantes en EE. UU. pueden donar a través de Amigos de Costa Rica y recibir un comprobante deducible de impuestos.

29/07/2025

🪵 A couple of weeks ago, we showed you a bird that’s incredibly hard to spot in the wild due to its amazing camouflage, the Great Potoo!

🌳 We first introduced you to an adult and a baby, and just a few days later, another baby potoo arrived. Thanks to the care of our veterinary team, all of them are eating well and growing fast, you can even see the babies’ feathers starting to change color.

🪶 Right now, they’re in our rehabilitation area, learning how to fly and hunt. These birds are naturally curious, always alert, and observant of their surroundings.
We can’t wait to see them fully grown and ready to return to the wild where they belong.

🤩 Fun fact about us: We rescue so many animals each year that coming up with names for all of them can be a bit of a challenge! But one of our volunteers came up with the perfect name for the oldest potoo, Pedro Potoo Pascal.

25/07/2025

⚡️ A little update on the campaign Esto No Es Pura Vida!

Environmental attorney Walter Brenes has filed a lawsuit against several state institutions for their failure to act in the face of threats to wildlife. The complaint includes a request for precautionary measures and calls for enforcement of the constitutional duty to protect the country’s biodiversity.

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⚡️ ¡Una pequeña actualización sobre la campaña Esto No Es Pura Vida!

El abogado ambiental Walter Brenes presentó una demanda contra varias entidades estatales por su inacción ante amenazas a la fauna silvestre. La denuncia incluye una solicitud de medidas cautelares y exige que se cumpla con el deber constitucional de proteger la biodiversidad del país

25/07/2025

Meet Gaston 🐒

🥺 Gaston is a baby howler monkey who, sadly, became another victim of electrocution. He and his mom were electrocuted on power lines while trying to move from one tree to another. Both fell to the ground, but his mom ran back into the trees, leaving him alone.

🌳 Thankfully, Gaston didn’t have any external wounds; he was in shock. Our vet administered fluids, and once we confirmed he was stable, we searched for his mother. Despite our efforts, we couldn’t find her, and Gaston had to come back with us.

You can help us prevent tragedies like this.

⚡️ Support our campaign, Climb Without Fear, to insulate 20 transformers and build 10 wildlife bridges, giving animals like Gaston a safe way to move through the canopy without risking their lives.

👉 Donate now: https://giving.classy.org/campaign/702992/donate

Dirección

Playa Chiquita
Puerto Viejo
70403

Horario de Apertura

Lunes	09:30 - 11:00
	11:30 - 13:00
Martes	09:30 - 11:00
	11:30 - 13:00
Miércoles	09:30 - 11:00
	11:30 - 13:00
Jueves	09:30 - 11:00
	11:30 - 13:00
Viernes	09:30 - 11:00
	11:30 - 13:00
Sábado	09:30 - 11:00
	11:30 - 13:00
Domingo	09:30 - 11:00
	11:30 - 13:00

Página web

http://www.jaguarrescue.foundation/

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