Toucan Rescue Ranch Blog
Parrots: You either love them or fear them
Parrots: You either love them or fear them. For a lot of people, there’s no real in-between. At least, that has been our experience seeing people volunteer and intern with us and having to learn how to work with and around these noisy, intelligent, and long-living animals.
Poor Baby Trash Panda Found with No Mama In Sight
Everyone, please give a warm welcome to our newest campaign baby, Rocket. Just like his friend Groot, Rocket is currently residing at our Release Site, and his story is a sort of a mystery. All we know is that Rocket was found alone, without a nest or a mom, by a local in the Guapiles area – Costa Rica – and he was then brought to us.
The Best Things to do When Visiting Costa Rica from a Costa Rican herself!
As a native Costa Rican, I can tell you my home country offers natural beauty beyond comparison – and outside activities are the #1 reason you should visit. In spite of its small size, Costa Rica has never been afraid to take on big challenges when it comes to preserving nature. In fact, more than 28% of our land is dedicated to national parks, reserves, and wildlife refuges and has topped the polls when it comes to ecological footprint since 99% of our energy is renewable. In addition, Costa Rica has been proclaimed as one of the happiest countries in the world, and here’s why:
The Sloth becomes a National Symbol of Costa Rica
The Sloth Becomes a National Symbol of Costa Rica: Did you hear?! This July, the Costa Rican government has announced that both the two-fingered and three-fingered sloths are now national symbols, and as a wildlife rescue center that specializes in sloths, we couldn’t be more excited!
Toucan Rescue Ranch Wins 2021 Tripadvisor Travelers’ Choice Award for Ranch Experience and Educational Tours
Heredia, Costa Rica – July 12, 2021 – Toucan Rescue Ranch today announced it has been recognized as a 2021 Travelers’ Choice award winner for hotels and tours. This achievement celebrates businesses that consistently deliver fantastic experiences to travelers around the globe, having earned great traveler reviews on Tripadvisor over the last 12 months. As challenging as the past year was, Toucan Rescue Ranch stood out by continuously delighting travelers here in Costa Rica and virtually.
Toucan Rescue Ranch Receives Global SafeTravels Stamp to Recognize Safe Travels Protocols
Toucan Rescue Ranch is a part of a special certification process called the Safety Travel Stamp. the World Travel & Tourism Council known as WTTC works alongside members, governments, health experts, and other industry associations that are working together to achieve effective recovery protocols by developing meaningful action plans that optimize sector-wide recovery efforts.
10 tips and tricks to power up your nonprofit’s social media strategy from a conservation media expert!
Are you looking for the right approach for your conservation project? And the best way to engage with like-minded people who believe in your cause? Getting the most of social media to have a successful non-profit? You’ve come to the right place!
Wildlife Catalog: Tayra
Tayras are the biggest species of Central American mustelid and they’re an animal of many names. Their genus name, Eira, is derived from the indigenous name for tayras in Perú and Bolivia, while their species name derives from Greek, meaning strange or foreign. Tayras are also known as “high woods dogs” in Trinidad, “tolomuco” throughout Central America and, interestingly enough, as “viejo de monte” or “old man of the woods” in Yucatan and Central America. This last name derives from the fact that tayras, like all mustelids, walk on their whole foot instead of just walking on their toes, like cats and dogs. This curious manner of walking makes tayra footprints relatively similar to human prints, except smaller in size. This, along with the fact that older Tayras acquire a white mane of hair around their heads, makes them appear as old men of the forest.
Today is Selfie Day – Here is why you should say NO to wildlife selfies
“It’s just a picture, what is the big deal?” “But animals are cute, and if I’m a rescue center, they know what they’re doing!” “Why? The animal looks very happy and cute!” These are some of the thoughts that you might think of when you read the title of this post. And we understand why you think this! But today, we want to enlighten you about why animal selfies, specifically wildlife selfies, are a bad thing, and why they are illegal in Costa Rica.