PARAISO CARLISA 2016

The animals do not belong to this centre, but to the state of Costa Rica. They only have them in adoption to reach a goal: their release in a safe environment. The animals come to this centre for reasons such as forfeiture to be caged as pets since childhood, by accident, or having lost their habitat and found in urban environments or roads. Their mission is to have them no more than six months in closed, during which time they conduct clinical tests to check their health, balance their diet and assesses their chances of reintegration to the wild life. Around 30% are ready for release after 2 or 3 months of observation as they are not yet tamed. Not only is release, they also have to readapt them to feed themselves, monitor not to invade rural areas for food (as they can be haunted as the risk for neighbours´animals), and check that their rehabilitation in the natural habitat is going well. Another 50% have difficulties in their rehabilitation into the wild, so they stay with them between six months and one year (or in some rare cases more). After 6 months being in cage we always transfer them to the semi enclosures -freedom, where we teach them to look for food, not to be hunted by other animals, etc The remaining 20% of the animals they receive are not fit to live in total freedom, for being so domesticated that may even lose their appetite when separated from humans, others can get into depression and understand their situation as abandonment. They try to readapt them as the other animals, but, in the end, they tend to stay in areas close to the enclosures which prevents them from being hunted and caged as pets. They are free, but they are not released into the forest.