It's pretty surprising to see a 27-year-old jump into her mother's arms and insist on being held like a baby. At the Sloth Sanctuary outside of Cahuita, Costa Rica, though, such a sight is ordinary.

For more than a decade, animal rescue centers in Central America have reported receiving a strangely high number of baby sloths with genetic mutations. Dr. Rebecca Cliffe was working on her Ph.D. near ...

A tropical red sun is setting over Caño Palma as we set out for our evening paddle in Tortuguero National Park in the north-east of Costa Rica. Vines loop across the tea-brown river, like a still ...

Costa Rica, alongside Brazil and Panama, has secured new international safeguards for two species of two-toed sloths, as nations at the United Nations Convention on International Trade in Endangered ...

Costa Rica is world-renowned for its commitment to preserving biodiversity and wildlife. The country’s fervor to protect its ...