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= Jaguar Rescue Center =

The Jaguar Rescue Center is an organization located in Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, Costa Rica, devoted to the rescue and rehabilitation of injured animals. The founders of the center are Encar Garcia Vila and Sandro Alviani, two biologists with a history in caring for animals. The rescue center serves as an interim home for most animals brought to it, until they are well enough to venture back into their natural habitats. Some creatures, however, are never able to return to the forest and find a permanent home at the JRC. The Jaguar Rescue Center is named after the first creature that was brought to the pair for care taking—a young jaguar. Due to its unfortunate passing, Encar and Sandro chose this name to honour the cub.

Animals and Habitats
Animals commonly cared for in large numbers include sloths, various types of monkeys, birds, reptiles and amphibians.

Encar and Sandro wanted the animals that they brought in to not only have somewhere to stay, but to also be maintained in an environment as similar to their natural one as possible. For this reason, the rehabilitation of the animals includes sections such as the "monkey mansion" and "sloth garden". The monkey mansion is the living quarters for those primates, where they spend the majority of their time. The sloth garden is where sloths are encouraged to spend time in bushes as a means of transitioning them back into the wild. The monkeys receive the same practice by being accompanied into the forest daily until they are ready for release.

Tours
The Jaguar Rescue Center offers a variety of tours for visitors to choose from. These vary from public to private and day to night. The centre also offers packages to combine tours at a discounted rate. The tours take place at either the rescue center itself or around the rainforest release station at La Ceiba. The tours inside the center allow visitors to witness the creatures up close while the Ceiba tours are for those who wish to see them in their natural habitat.

Volunteer Program
The center also welcomes the help of devoted volunteers to support their cause. The volunteer program requires a minimum of a 4 week commitment—3 weeks caring for animals at the center and 1 week at La Ceiba rehabilitating the animals. Volunteers are required to work shifts 5 days a week from 7:30am-4pm.

Roles of volunteers include cleaning animal living spaces, feeding and caring for animals, taking monkeys into the forest and sloths into the garden for rehabilitation, and more. These roles are assigned to volunteers each morning, which allows the volunteers to experience each section of the center.

Accommodations
JRC owns three different buildings for the purpose of accommodating visitors. The first is a hostel beside the rescue center that include spacious rooms with three or four beds and a private bathroom. The other two are houses "La Ceiba" and "Ilan Ilan" which are located in the jungle. This includes the rental of the entire house. The jungle houses also have restaurant service for an additional fee and must be notified no less than 12 hours before the meal is expected. All locations include fully equipped kitchens with purified water for drinking.