Manuel Antonio Park is the crown jewel of the Costa Rican National Park system. Some would say that it is the birthplace of Eco Tourism. Manuel Antonio Park is also one of the two restricted habitats of the highly endangered Mono Titi squirrel monkey.
Among the smallest of all primates, weighing in at around one and half pounds, the Mono Titi is as endearing as any creature in nature. Known as the “peaceful primates”, their social structure is unique in the egalitarian nature of their interactions. Both male and female nurture their young and they enjoy equal status within their troops. They live, they play and they love with the youthful exuberance of a band of mischievous teenagers on a holiday bash.
Fundacion Santuario Silvestre de Osa is a local enterprise wholly committed to providing wildlife rescue and rehabilitation for orphaned, injured and displaced animals indigenous to the southern zone of Costa Rica.
Working with the local community, local businesses and government, we provide the best care possible for the animals in our care.
We also strive to be an active and valuable member of our local community.
More about Fundacion Santuario Silvestre de Osa you can read here:
We are the Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund (I am the President, my wife Dr. Winnie Hallwachs is the secretary and treasurer, and it is a US registered 501.c.3 It is also a registered NGO in Costa Rica, the NGO for Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (163,000 ha, 2% of Costa Rica; 2.6% of the world’s species, and real conservation into perpetuity). GDFCF currently owns 13,000 ha of ACG forest all purchased with donations, and all eventually to be given to the government, but currently simply managed by the government (by the ACG staff). The project is to obtain all the forest portions remaining around the margins of ACG, to make it as large and climate-robust as humanly possible, and endow all of the ACG (which currently has only an endowment of $6 m but we are working on it).
