Mission

At the Costa Rica Animal Rescue Center we are dedicated to protecting and helping endangered Costa Rican wildlife with all means available to us. Our first and foremost goal is to ensure the welfare of the animals at the center and help them recover from both, physical and psychological wounds that have arisen from their past suffering.

Since many animals become victims of abuse in the tourism sector or the illegal pet trade, we want to raise awareness about their mistreatment. Our work is our way of leading the change to more animal welfare and a sustainable way of living in coexistence with wildlife.

Volunteer Activities

These are some of the activities you can expect as a volunteer at CRARC, all of which you can experience during your stay. Most of these activities include taking care of animals and their habitats but other than that you can also get access to amazing trips to various monuments of our beautiful country, Costa Rica!

History

Marielos was living in Escazu when her husband's brothers came to Costa Rica, they wanted to build a tourism business. So they all left for Limon, to a precious place called Moin. Which was an island full of flora and fauna, There her husband's brother's business didn't work out so the brothers left, One-day sick animals started being brought to Marielos and her family, the first of which was Budah the two-toed sloth, they cured them successfully and so Marielos and her daughter created a rescue center, after a while of success with the rescue center her daughter and son in law found that the leatherback turtles laid their eggs in the beach right in from of the rescue center after various poachers stole eggs Marielo's daughter and son in law started patrolling the beaches along with Jairo Mora to protect the eggs. Volunteer service was opened for the rescue center and beach patrolling, and the local police started helping the beach patrolling by providing protection for the volunteers from the poachers, after a while, the police stopped helping even when asked for help, and after a little, people were sent to kill Jairo because of the disturbance he was causing the beach by protecting the eggs and Marielos along with all her animals were removed from Limon by the government to use her land to build a mega port.

After Marielos was removed from Limon she had nothing, she sold all her assets to liquidate enough money to be able to buy a property and build habitats for her animals. After moving locations twice she finally found the right property for her animals and transferred everything to that property which is now Costa Rica Animal Rescue Center