Help Us Help Wildlife!

Kids Saving the Rainforest runs a Wildlife Rescue Center with a wildlife veterinary clinic, where we treat and rehabilitate wounded, sick, and abandoned rescued rainforest animals on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica. Our team works with professional staff and volunteers to provide state-of-the-art care for approximately 200 rescued animals each year. Tragically, many animals are injured or orphaned due to human-related causes, and the only way to help is with human intervention. The most common causes of rescues are electrocution injuries, car strikes, and issues related to the illegal pet trade or loose cats and dogs. Many come in with grave injuries, weak conditions, or are orphaned when their mothers die.

Your ticket helps our clinic and a full-time Wildlife Veterinarian and Veterinary Technician offering excellent care, along with a Biologist and excellent support staff. We are extremely effective at successfully releasing healthy animals back into the wild, with an average 55% release rate, well above the norm for sanctuaries.

Our Rainforest Mission:

It’s time to save our world. We believe saving the planet starts with each and every one of us. With your help, we have already planted over 18,000 trees, and our work is just beginning. The forest is a great place to begin as a solution for climate and biodiversity. With the continued help of you and many others, we plan to plant thousands more trees in the rainforest.Trees are crucial for the survival of all living species on Earth. There are plenty of reasons why we plant trees, such as combat climate change, store & reduce the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, creates many diverse economic opportunities, conserve energy, save water, and provide food to humans and wildlife, creates environments for wildlife habitats to thrive.

The rainforests help the local wildlife thrive, such as squirrels and white-faced monkeys, as well as three-toed sloths. Our plan is to plant a mix of native trees and fruit trees. Some of the species that will be planted are Manzana de Agua, Roble Cebo, Ron Ron, Pilon, Muneca, Lorita, Sota Caballo, Caoba, Hule, Aguacatillo, and more! Your ticket will go towards these efforts!

Save the Seas!

Kids Saving the Rainforest prides itself on helping the sea as well as the forests.

These sea giants face many problems even before being born. Their eggs are really valuable in the illegal market, so lots of poachers will look for the nest to take out the eggs or they’ll even kill the females to take the eggs from their bellies. KSTR works with a turtle Nursery that prevents eggs from being poached, whilst ensuring they hatch and make it to the ocean safely.

Your ticket will fund this effort and the other portion will go to our Wildlife Rescue Center´s veterinary clinic and rehabilitation area to upgrade our Marine Conservation Center. Our equipment and facilities for marine wildlife needs major upgrades in order to house multiple marine species and provide the best medical care possible to be able to rehabilitate and release them safely back to their habitat. Luckily we had a tank made quickly for our rescue, Leonidas!