Zoo Ave

Rescate Animal Zoo Ave, or certainly Zoo Ave, is an urban park of about 14 hectares, located in La Garita, in the canton of Alajuela, Costa Rica. It has a mean altitude of 814 meters and is bounded to the north with the aid of the bed of the river Rio Poas. The website online includes the largest collection of bird species in Latin America. Much of the land comprising the Zoo become a coffee and sugar cane plantation location. Initially it consisted of privately owned collection of approximately 50 animals.

Because of its foremost expansion and first-rate climate, for many years regarded attempts to build on its premises a zoo, however none materialized until the early Nineties whilst the assets turned into to be administered by using conservationist Dennis Janik, who lead the advent of over 1000 trees in substitution of the espresso plantations. In 1995 the Costa Rican authorities accredited the introduction of an animal rescue task within the zoo. In the subsequent many years, diverse species of birds originating from diverse parts of the country, so as to sell the idea of conservation of tropical habitat, have been introduced.