ASOCIACION PANAMERICANA PARA LA CONSERVACION

Salomé

The biggest threats to tamanduas (anteaters) are habitat loss and fragmentation, vehicular collisions and human-wildlife conflict.  Salomé was rescued in 2018 when he was just two weeks old and his mother was road kill.

Brown-throated three-toed sloth

Sloths are threatened by illegal trafficking, used to supply the global pet trade. 

Meet Brady Sloth. Her mother fell from a tree when she was less than a month old. 

Lyndi

Numbers of northern tamandua in Panama are falling dramatically, largely due to deaths on roads.

Meet Lyndi, an orphaned tamandua whose mother was killed by a car. 

Hoffman's two-toed sloth

Their habitat is being destroyed by urban expansion.  Come to Panama Nature Center to meet our sloths who became orphaned after their mothers died due to domestic dog attacks, road kill or after falling from trees. 

Every year, we rescue more than 450 wild animals. If you wish to support another species, here are some of the other we rescue: Tropical screech owl, Vermiculated screech owl, Barn owl, Spectacled owl, osprey eagle, pearl kite, gray-headed kite, gray hawk, Yellow headed caracara, American kestrel, bat falcon, peregrine falcon,  Brown pelicans, Neotropic cormorants, Variegated squirrel, Common and Virginia opossum, Geoffrey’s tamarin, Black howler monkey, White-nosed coati, Crab-eating raccoon, Margay, Ocelot, Lesser capybara, Paca, Central American agouti, Tapiti rabbit, Nine-banded long-nosed armadillo, bats, Black-bellied whistling-duck, Gray-headed chachalaca, Great frigatebird, Tiger-heron, Egrets, Black vulture, Gallinules, Gulls, Doves, Parrots, Swifts, Hummingbirds, Trogons, Motmots, Toucans, Woodpeckers, Antbirds, Flycatchers, Cotingas, Swallows, Mockingbirds, Tanagers, Frogs, Caimans, crocodiles, turtles and snakes.  

Humanity has wiped out more than half of all the world's species.
Your gift will help to protect animals and return them back into the wild.

Edie

The biggest threats to crocodiles are habitat loss and human persecution, including illegal poaching and conflict from human expansion.  Edie was rescued from a construction site when he was an egg.

CHOOSE YOUR ANIMAL

Pino

Rothschild's porcupines are endemic to Panama, but their numbers are decreasing thanks to habitat destruction.

Meet Pino, who ended up orphaned after her mother was attacked by domestic dogs.