What makes Proyecto ASIS different from any other wildlife experience in Costa Rica? It starts with a simple but powerful idea: every animal here has a story, and every story is an opportunity to educate. Located in La Fortuna, Costa Rica near Arenal Volcano, Proyecto ASIS is a wildlife rescue center, sanctuary, and educational center dedicated to rescuing injured and orphaned animals, promoting ethical wildlife tourism, and fighting the exotic pet trade. Whether you join us for a Wildlife Tour, add a hands-on Volunteering component, or explore the Sloth Tour, you’ll leave with a completely new understanding of what it means to coexist with nature.
Welcome to Proyecto ASIS, we are a wildlife rescue center, sanctuary, and educational center. Our main goal is to use the sanctuary and the cases we have here — animals that end up with us due to human-related reasons — to tell their stories and motivate people to avoid keeping exotic pets, promote more ethical tourism with wildlife, and give the animals that come here for medical care a chance to go back home. As we say: I hope not to see you again out here.
It’s important to understand that because we coexist with them, we can observe them — but we do not interact directly, because otherwise we would be affecting their natural behavior.
Wildlife Tour
For daily visitors, we offer a Wildlife Tour: a guided walk with our tour guides, because people normally have questions about the animals and we want to explore what they want to learn. That’s the Wildlife Tour.
Wildlife Tour + Volunteering
Then we have the Wildlife Tour + Volunteering. The volunteering component comes at the end of the tour — we go and prepare the animals’ diet together, and help make enrichment toys so we can feed them equally and avoid any conflict. This helps visitors understand that the care behind this sanctuary requires a lot of work — and that having a monkey, for example, is not just about having a cute animal that will be fine on its own. It requires tremendous effort and dedication to their welfare.
Sloth Tour & Environmental Education
We also offer the Sloth Tour, which has a strong environmental education component. We teach elementary school students, and give university students the opportunity to complete their volunteer hours here.
More Than a Sanctuary
So more than a sanctuary, more than a rescue center — what we truly are is a wildlife educational center.
🎬 A special thank you to the journalism students from Mercer University’s Macon Newsroom (@maconnewsroom) for producing this video. Your talent, dedication, and passion for storytelling made this possible — we are truly grateful!
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