Reconnecting the Canopy: Safe Passage for Wildlife

About The Jaguar Rescue Center (JRC)

The Jaguar Rescue Center (JRC) is a wildlife rescue and conservation organization based in Costa Rica’s Talamanca Biological Corridor, one of the most biodiverse regions in the world. Founded in 2008 by biologist Encar García, JRC was born from a growing reality many communities across Costa Rica’s Caribbean region now see firsthand: wildlife is increasingly under pressure from habitat fragmentation, roads, electrical infrastructure, and expanding human development. Today, our team of veterinarians, biologists, wildlife rehabilitators, educators, volunteers, and community partners works every day to rescue, rehabilitate, and, whenever possible, return injured and orphaned wildlife back to the forest where they belong. Over time though, it became clear that rescue alone cannot solve the scale of the problem. Many of the injuries we treat are preventable and occur repeatedly in the same high-risk areas. That is why JRC has also expanded its focus toward prevention and coexistence effor

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