What tours does Proyecto ASIS offer?

Proyecto ASIS offers three main experiences: the Wildlife Tour (a guided walk learning about rescued animals), the Wildlife Tour + Volunteering (which includes preparing animal diets and building enrichment toys), and the Sloth Tour (a deep environmental education experience). All tours are available daily in La Fortuna, Costa Rica.

Can I volunteer at a wildlife sanctuary in Costa Rica?

Yes! Proyecto ASIS welcomes volunteers at their wildlife rescue center and sanctuary in La Fortuna, Costa Rica. Volunteer activities include preparing food for rescued animals, building environmental enrichment toys, and collaborating on maintenance tasks. Programs are open all year round and welcome individuals, friends, classmates, and student groups.

What is included in the Sloth Tour at Proyecto ASIS?

The Sloth Tour at Proyecto ASIS includes a strong environmental education component. Visitors learn why sloths and other wildlife belong in nature, not as pets or photo props. The tour also supports educational programs for elementary school students and university students completing volunteer hours.

What is Proyecto ASIS?

Proyecto ASIS is a wildlife rescue center, sanctuary, and educational center located in La Fortuna, Costa Rica, near Arenal Volcano. Their mission is to rescue and rehabilitate injured and orphaned wild animals, promote ethical wildlife tourism, and fight the exotic pet trade through education and community engagement.

Does Proyecto ASIS welcome school and university groups?

Yes! Proyecto ASIS welcomes elementary school students for environmental education programs and university students looking to complete volunteer hours. Groups of students, classmates, and friends are all welcome. Programs are open all year round in La Fortuna, Costa Rica.

Why should I visit a wildlife sanctuary instead of interacting with wild animals?

At Proyecto ASIS, visitors can observe rescued wildlife without direct interaction, which is important to protect the animals' natural behavior and support their rehabilitation. The center promotes ethical wildlife tourism as an alternative to exotic pet ownership and unethical wildlife experiences.

Wildlife Tours & Volunteer Programs Costa Rica

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!