Centro de Rescate Paraiso Carlisa is an animal andwildlife rescue center located in the beautiful mountains in the Central Pacific Region of Costa Rica. The rescue center is located in a 300 hektar natural reserve and is connected to the Hotel Paraiso Carlisa. The center take care of and nurses wild animals and birds back to health with the goal of releasing them into the wild. Unfortunately, ther
e are animals unable to take care of themselves in the wild, and these are permanent inhabitants of the centre. Among them is the spider monkey Leia, who was kept as an illegal pet in a bar, and the white nosed coati named Nina, who grew up in a family with dogs. The center is based upon volonteers helping with the work, which include:
- Feeding the animals
-Collect food for the animals (visiting plantations to collect bananas, papayas, watermelon or picking mango and guyanas from the trees around the hotel)
- Clean for the animals
- Take care of the butterfly garden
- Painting and building new enclosures for the animals
- Readapt animals to their natural habitat
As a volonteer, you would be living in a room at the hotel and eating all your meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner) stright from the hotels kitchen. At the hotel is also WiFi and a pool, free to use during the free time. Further more, once a week the volonteers are offered to go tothe beach town of Jaco for the afternoon, and every Sunday is the volonteers day of, this day the volonteers are brought to the very famous and extrodinary beautiful national park Manuel Antonio where sloths and multiple species of monkeys are a common occurance. It is a bus leaving every day from San José, stopping just outside the hotel, making it very simple to get here. For more information, do not hesitate to send an email.
