Wildlife Sanctuary Volunteer: Manuel Antonio Experience

Join KSTR’s day volunteer program in Manuel Antonio. Engage in hands-on conservation, support wildlife, and make a lasting impact. Discover the sanctuary’s mission today.

Duration: 8 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Blue Banyan Inn - - Guided Tour: We will start the day with a fun and informative guided tour of our Wildlife Sanctuary. Get ready to meet sloths, spider monkeys, kinkajous, and other unique animals that call our sanctuary home. - Refreshments and Activities: After the tour, enjoy refreshments and participate in a short activity with our animal…
What's Included
  • Lunch included
Additional Information

The KSTR day volunteer program offers a unique and immersive experience within Manuel Antonio’s wildlife sanctuary. Unlike traditional wildlife tours, participants actively engage in conservation efforts, from creating enrichment activities for sanctuary animals to assisting with meal preparations. The day begins with an informative guided tour,…

Location
Blue Banyan Inn
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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877giadam
Apr 22, 2025
Wonderful Experience Volunteering at KSTR! - I thoroughly enjoyed my volunteer day at Kids Saving the Rainforest. This animal sanctuary is wonderful! The staff are kind and take really good care of the animals. I learned so much about the animals who live there including sloths, capuchin and spider monkeys, peccaries, parrots and macaws and many others! I received a tour of the sanctuary and then got to work with a staff member to help prepare food and feed the animals. They offered a wonderful lunch where I got to meet other volunteers. It was a memorable day. I highly recommend visiting and volunteering at this sanctuary.
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Z3848pjbilalk
Apr 19, 2025
A once in a lifetime experience. - This was hands down the best experience we had as a family in Costa Rica. Our guide Katelyn was exceptional and made our whole experience memorable. Volunteering made it clear how much time effort and care goes into ensuring the well being of these incredible animals. Our boys 9 and 7 got to fully participate and were positive it has made a lasting memory for them. Definitely a must try.
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Laura
Apr 12, 2025
Amazing animal experience - This is a great place for inspiring children to help animals. First they show you around the sanctuary explaining why the animals there and then the children help prepare the medication and the enrichment activities. After lunch, each of the animals are fed and given their enrichment activities. Like children get the opportunity to go into the enclosures and hide the bits of food for the animals to find. It was a lovely day out and all in a good cause. My children say they would recommend this activity.
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H6676lgbrendanc
Apr 4, 2025
Wonderful place. Wonderful people. - So grateful that this organization exists. The sanctuary is important … but the role that they play in educating the public and in serving as a hospital for injured or ill animals is even more amazing.
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Flyer67135602859
Mar 20, 2025
Great day - We had the full volunteer day. Very informative helpful and professional staff. Great to experience the animals close up. Shame humans have meant they need sanctuary. Staff clearly care about the animals and look after them in accordance to their needs. Side note states transport provided however this was not the case as no van. Hard to contact as phone didn’t work and could be hard to get to however did not spoil a very enjoyable day.
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Christinaleano
Feb 18, 2025
Amazing experience for my 11 year old and myself - What an amazing experience! This was a well organized day that included a guided tour of the grounds and then interactive experiences where we got to prepare enrichment activities and food and then bring them to the animals. After seeing the animals in the park, this was a precious way to interact with them in this close way. So grateful for this opporutnity!
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Madurl
Feb 14, 2025
Unforgivable experience !!! - The tour was AMAZING! We were lucky enough to be alone and have the time to ask a lot of questions and observe the animals. We made them enrichments and food. The guides were super knowledgeable and nice. Always taking the time to answer any questions we might have. A big thank you!
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Cosmopolitan311424
Feb 9, 2025
A day volunteering - The site is so beautiful and the organization is doing incredible work. We saw some of the animals in the sanctuary and had the opportunity to prep food and enrichment activities. Delicious lunch and wonderful staff and interns! Highly recommended experience!
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Benjaminge6476iw
Jan 1, 2025
highly reccomend - It was a fantastic activity for people of all ages. We first got a thorough tour of all the animals in the sanctuary, and then prepared their food and enrichments, and gave the animals there food and water. Then we had a break where they served lunch suitable for kids and adults, and rested for a bit. Then, we made tamales(with fruits inside) and other food for the animals. We also collected the animals food, and even got to arrange the sloth habitat! We gave the animals there and got to go in there enclosures. It was very fun and cool to help all the cute animals and is a great activity for animal lovers!
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Chrisord125
Dec 21, 2024
Fantastic! - A truly Immersive experience into the conservation of Costa Rica’s amazing wildlife. Experiencing a day in the life of a keeper allows you to learn so much about the animals in their care and get up close encounters with these amazing animals. Thank you to the team of staff and other volunteers for making myself and my husband feel so welcome and teaching us so much, a truly memorable experience.
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From $100
up to 10 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).