Fundacion Santuario Silvestre de Osa
a wildlife rescue center in Costa Rica
GOALS-
i. Through scientifically conducted management programs we intend to provide humane solutions for the treatment of wildlife, some requiring special needs while ensuring a long, comfortable, disease free life.
ii. Of paramount concern is the release of the animals for their further welfare.
OBJECTIVES-
i. To promote conservation awareness through example and education.
ii. Maintain natural biodiversity.
iii. Provide long-term economic benefits to the local community.
iv. To improve relations and open channels of communication with similar organizations.
EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY EFFORTS-
i. The sanctuary believes eco-tourism can sustain the surrounding communities, but the industry itself must do more than offer service related jobs. They must create and teach conservation and environmental education and provide professional training of new skills while incorporating current techniques and proven methods.
ii. The sanctuary is creating a twenty-year conservation education program teaching natural history, the ecological value, and the adverse impacts to wildlife and their habitats.
iii. We encourage volunteer internships and hire the local people for employment.
iv. Through donations, our philanthropic programs assisting the community will continue. We are among other non-governmental organizations that have committed to have free spayed and neuter clinics in the pueblos around Piedras Blancas NP.
CONCLUSION-
We fervently believe four interrelated spheres must be emphasized for an effective conservation effort such as ours:
i. Education-success in habitat preservation and government regulations will depend on social acceptance-the best tool for this is education.
ii. Research-more comprehensive field surveys, natural history studies, and long-term observation of released animals need to be completed and made available to others.
iii. Habitat Preservation-should be viewed as the most important overall objective of conservation efforts-for it is through habitat preservation that species preservation rises to the level of ecosystem preservation.
iv. Government Regulations-the realization that wildlife is crucial to the well being of the ecosystem and that threatened endemic and indigenous species have national importance can help ensure that law enforcement agents view wildlife offenses with greater seriousness and that fines imposed by magistrates reflect the gravity of the cases.
i. Through scientifically conducted management programs we intend to provide humane solutions for the treatment of wildlife, some requiring special needs while ensuring a long, comfortable, disease free life.
ii. Of paramount concern is the release of the animals for their further welfare.
OBJECTIVES-
i. To promote conservation awareness through example and education.
ii. Maintain natural biodiversity.
iii. Provide long-term economic benefits to the local community.
iv. To improve relations and open channels of communication with similar organizations.
EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY EFFORTS-
i. The sanctuary believes eco-tourism can sustain the surrounding communities, but the industry itself must do more than offer service related jobs. They must create and teach conservation and environmental education and provide professional training of new skills while incorporating current techniques and proven methods.
ii. The sanctuary is creating a twenty-year conservation education program teaching natural history, the ecological value, and the adverse impacts to wildlife and their habitats.
iii. We encourage volunteer internships and hire the local people for employment.
iv. Through donations, our philanthropic programs assisting the community will continue. We are among other non-governmental organizations that have committed to have free spayed and neuter clinics in the pueblos around Piedras Blancas NP.
CONCLUSION-
We fervently believe four interrelated spheres must be emphasized for an effective conservation effort such as ours:
i. Education-success in habitat preservation and government regulations will depend on social acceptance-the best tool for this is education.
ii. Research-more comprehensive field surveys, natural history studies, and long-term observation of released animals need to be completed and made available to others.
iii. Habitat Preservation-should be viewed as the most important overall objective of conservation efforts-for it is through habitat preservation that species preservation rises to the level of ecosystem preservation.
iv. Government Regulations-the realization that wildlife is crucial to the well being of the ecosystem and that threatened endemic and indigenous species have national importance can help ensure that law enforcement agents view wildlife offenses with greater seriousness and that fines imposed by magistrates reflect the gravity of the cases.