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Exciting New Project - The KSTR Educational Center

Kids Saving The Rainforest has a great new project that is going to help kids and adults learn about the rainforest, its destruction, and how they can help to save it. The Center will be built on 4 acres of property in the heart of the rainforest.  The property will have a river flowing through it, titi monkeys swinging through the trees, as well as sloths, toucans, snakes, and other wonderful rainforest animals, birds, butterflies, and insects. Kids Saving The Rainforest is going to use that land to teach people about the rainforest! Read more about the Educational Center!

Adopt-a-Tree
For only $20, you can sponsor the planting of a rainforest tree in your name or in the name of a loved one. The saplings are planted in the KSTR Garden and cared for until they are large enough to be transplanted into an area that we are reforesting. Read more about Adopting a Tree!
Would you like to adopt a tree?

Titi Monkey Bridges  

White Faced Capuchin using KSTR Monkey Bridge photo courtesy of Anita Myketuk of Buena Nota, Manuel Antonio, C.R.		Only 1200 to 1500 critically endangered Titi monkeys remain. The leading causes of death are electrocution by electric wires while crossing roads and being hit by cars. As a part of our plan to save the Titi monkeys, Kids Saving the Rainforest places monkey bridges that cross above the roads of Manuel Antonio. With the help of the local hydroelectric company (ICE) and local experts, we continue to erect bridges as needed.

8th grade kids from the Ecotourism School of the Pacific monitoring a monkey bridge                      

Would you like to sponsor a monkey bridge?

Reforestation Program

Our efforts are focused on stimulating reforestation projects in Manuel Antonio and the surrounding area. We are extending the monkey corridor that is so important for the survival of the endangered squirrel monkey [Titi monkey]. The trees selected are native species trees, trees that are in danger of extinction and that provide food and shelter for the Titi monkey year around. One of our projects involved reforesting pastures in the monkey corridor by planting 4,000 trees.

Click here to read about Finca Tranquila II

KSTR Store
The Kids Saving the Rainforest Store sells artwork created by the kids, as well as by local artists and craftspeople. 100% of the profits from the store go to save the rainforest.

Environment and Art Saturday Camp
At our Saturday camp local and visiting children learn about the rainforest and everything in it: trees, plants, insects, and animals, such as sloths, kinkajous, and Titi monkeys. They learn how to save the rainforest and specifically how they can save the Titi monkey from extinction. They create artwork, some of which will be sold to help save the rainforest in the KSTR store. It is a fun-filled learning experience to empower kids to save the planet. See environmental camp album

Environmental Library
Our environmental library and research center are a repository and distribution center for up-to-date information about the rainforest and the Titi monkey. We have over 1800 environmental, children's, and spiritual books as well as novels available.

Rehabilitation Of Baby Animals
KSTR has had a very successful program of saving and rehabilitating animals. We have rehabilitated sloths, kinkajous, birds, monkeys, are currently rehabilitating 3 baby sloths, a baby kinkajou, and a baby parrot. We used a costly tracking collar to track the animals when they were released into the wild to assure a safe release! We also take in young abandoned domestic animals and adopt them out when healthy and neutered. See photos of these baby animals!

Sister Projects
We invite children around the world to have an active relationship with the rainforest by working with the children in our organization. By working with KSTR, they will learn the value of stewardship and will empower themselves by taking responsibility for what could be seen as "somebody else's problem". In addition, they will have the opportunity to learn first-hand about some of the social, economic, political, and environmental issues that challenge us, not only in Costa Rica, but globally.

KSTR volunteers with information table, Palo Alto, CA/ Annika's KSTR birthday party, Ashland, Or./ KSTR volunteer, Palo Alto, CA

By working directly with educators, we have developed a number of ways in which children can get involved in rainforest conservation and help support our projects. For more information about educational projects and programs, click here.