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Wild Animal Hospital
Thanks to a donation from Tropisphere Real Estate and a little luck,
Rainsong Sanctuary's Wild Animal Hospital and Rescue center is open, with many animals in recovery. Hundreds of volunteers from all over the world have
visited Rainsong to help out, but cash donations are always needed to pay vet bill and buy animal food! Please contact Mary at 8845-3190.
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Montezuma Eco Village
Now selling cheap lots - $25,000 and up!!! - The first eco-community in the Malpais-Montezuma area, just 7-10 minutes from the beaches, with organic gardens, chemical free construction - ecologogically sustainable living at its best!
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Montezuma's Cafe Organico
Montezuma is incredibly blessed to have Cafe Organico, run by Ozlem Ozdener. Organico is open for breakfast and lunch, serving food that is vegan, organic, and amazingly tasty. Please try it and support this great place! Check out their new "Organic Lounge".
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Curu Park, Costa Rica
Curu is an amazing park, about 45 minutes drive from Montezuma, towards the Ferry in Paquera. It's a small private park, but despite its relatively small size, it has a huge diversity of wildlife. It's one of the few areas in the southern Nicoya Peninsula that still has crocodiles.
Curu is probably best known now for its wildlife reintroduction programs. Getting permits for releasing animals back into the wild that have become extinct is an extrmely arduous process in Costa Rica, but Curu has done a phenomenal job so far, with two species released: Spider Monkeys, and Scarlet Macaws. Both of these species were once common in this part of Costa Rica, and we hope that within a few decades, the populations of both species that have been released at Curu will be able to spread beyond the park boundaries and flourish.
For the scarlet macaw, the biggest barrier is poachers, who generally capture these beautiful birds to sell in other countries, often injuring them in the process. The Costa Rican government has done a phenomenal job of stopping the poaching and educating the people, and I can personally say that I've never seen any of these particular birds kept illegally in cages, although I've seen plenty of more common green species.
As for spider monkeys, the difficulty that they've found in Curu is that these monkeys habituate themselves to humans easily. The family of spider monkeys that was released in Curu quickly discovered that they could hang out by the side of the road and beg for handouts from passing tourists. It's a lot easier than rooting around all day in the jungle for food. So these monkeys have been moved to another part of the park, away from the road. The spider monkeys disappeared, I'm told, because supposedly they were the tastiest of the three monkey species that once lived in this part of Costa Rica, so people ate them all several decades ago.
Please visit Curu Park and make a donation. Their work is very important to the future of wildlife on the Nicoya peninsula.
Curu's official website: Curu Park.
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