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My heart hammers in my chest as I unlock the door to the enclosure, my eyes hunting through the mesh to find the animal inside. It’s not just the heat making my palms sweaty as I open the door and duck inside; it’s not just the exercise making me short of breath. Of all the animals in the clinic, this is the one that terrifies me the most: the one-armed, two-toed sloth named Ace. To the average person, it might seem silly to be afraid of a sloth, of all creatures – in Costa Rica, shouldn’t you fear the jaguars more? – but a healthy respect for and fear of sloths was one of the first things I learned while working at Kids Saving the Rainforest (KSTR), a wildlife rescue and sanctuary, this past summer, funded by the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine’s Expanding Horizons program…

Fox Chapel Publishing announces a partnership with Kids Saving the Rainforest (KSTR), a non-profit organization with a mission to protect the diverse wildlife of Costa Rica’s Pacific Coast…

In the last year, the Kids Saving the Rainforest organization, headquartered in Manuel Antonio on Costa Rica’s Central Pacific coast, has made great strides toward continuing the goals set by nine-year-old Janine Licare when she created the nonprofit in 1999…

In 1999, two nine-year-old girls living in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica, were troubled by the deforestation that was putting their beloved squirrel monkey at risk. So Janine Licare and Aislin Livingstone raised money with a roadside crafts stand and bought 4 acres of rainforest. Kids Saving the Rainforest (KSTR), has grown to manage a reforestation program, a wildlife rescue and sanctuary, and a bridge-building program that reduces wildlife/human conflicts…