Toucan Rescue Ranch

In 2004, on a two-acre parcel of land in San Isidro de Heredia, Leslie Howle and her husband opened one of the country's first toucan rescue centers licensed by MINAET (the Ministry of the Environment, Energy and Telecommunications). The Toucan Rescue Ranch functioned as a private rescue center until 2010, when a failing economy encouraged the couple to open their doors to the public.