While our main goal is always to rehabilitate and release as many animals as possible, sometimes their conditions simply do not give them a fighting chance to survive on their own.
Our Wildlife Sanctuary is designed for those animals that can never be released because they were either raised in captivity as illegal pets and became reliant on humans for food or because they a permanently injured or disabled so they can never survive in the wild again.
We have an excellent Wildlife Veterinarian, Dr. Carmen Soto who treats new rescues at our Wildlife Clinic and Rehab, as well as maintaining the health of the Sanctuary animals. We also have an excellent Biologist/Regente, Yeimy Gamboa, who manages the general care of the sanctuary animals along with the Zookeepers.
This level of fabulous support staff and managers - and the help we get from our expert volunteer students with experience in primatology, biology, conservation and veterinary student volunteers gives us excellent professional care for our animals.
Our Wildlife Sanctuary is designed for those animals that can never be released because they were either raised in captivity as illegal pets and became reliant on humans for food or because they a permanently injured or disabled so they can never survive in the wild again.
We have an excellent Wildlife Veterinarian, Dr. Carmen Soto who treats new rescues at our Wildlife Clinic and Rehab, as well as maintaining the health of the Sanctuary animals. We also have an excellent Biologist/Regente, Yeimy Gamboa, who manages the general care of the sanctuary animals along with the Zookeepers.
This level of fabulous support staff and managers - and the help we get from our expert volunteer students with experience in primatology, biology, conservation and veterinary student volunteers gives us excellent professional care for our animals.
Male Spider monkey KSTR sanctuary 2014 by Sam Trull
Our Wildlife Sanctuary will eventually have an educational center and stations which will empower children and adults to help us save the rainforest and teach children and adults both why our rainforests are so incredibly important to all of us. In addition to our permanently injured or handicapped animal residents received through our rehab we also have a male and female Spider monkey who came out of the pet trade, as well Panamanian (Geoffreys Tamarin) monkeys and Brazilian marmoset monkeys. Unfortunately, those monkeys would not be releasable in this country and were bred in captivity for several generations so they have lost some of the physical and behavioural attributes they would need. They were donated to KSTR by a retired primatologist in Costa Rica, and we are very happy to be able to observe them and offer them a better life.
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