Sparkroot Wild partners with indigenous and local community to protect and celebrate bird life within Ngäbe territory and the pueblo Vista Mar, Costa Rica. We work to boost the local economy through birdwatching tourism, create conservation mural art and wild bird sanctuary gardens within the pueblo and at elementary schools.

Our Approach

  • AVIAN CONSERVATION COMMUNITY GARDENS AT RESERVATION SCHOOLS

    Gardens to feed birds and communities. LEARN MORE

  • EMPOWERING INDIGENOUS ENTREPRENUERS

    Nature Guide Certification. Native Tree Nursery. Beekeeping Collective. LEARN MORE

  • BIRD MURALS AT RESERVA SCHOOLS

    Fostering conservation & celebrating birds through spectacular mural art at 14 Indigneous Territory schools. LEARN MORE

  • EDUCATION CENTER, WILD BIRD GARDENS & TRAILS

    Come learn about birds and enjoy the trails at Sparkroot Wild and Vista Mar. COMING SOON

  • TOURS & HOSPITALITY

    Hire a guide into Ngabe Territory on horseback or foot. View birds. Visit a waterfall. Camp in a traditional Palm Thatched Rancho. Night hike under the stars. REQUEST INFO

  • WILD BIRD RESCUE & REHAB

    WHATSAPP +1 919 545 6377 if you have found an injured or orphaned bird. We are happy to help. LEARN MORE

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We envision vibrant communities, with people and avifauna flourishing, places where humans and wildlife live in mutually beneficial relationship.

VISTA MAR PUEBLO & CONTE-BURICA INDIGENOUS RESERVE

These oft overlooked Costa Rican gems are home to an incredible and lively diversity of birdlife, providing safe haven to a colorful range of both rare, endemic and threatened avian species. In a surrounding world of diminishing rainforest habitat, these verdant refuges remain lush with the song, hum and howl of a still vibrant world.

“Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated.”

– Terry Tempest Williams

Make a Difference. Join us in this Project.

Sparkroot Wild is committed to:

  • encouraging protection and preservation of endemic and threatened birds and their habitat within the Ngäbe Indigenous Territory and Vista Mar pueblo.

  • honoring ancestral land rights, territory boundaries and laws.

  • encouraging conservation-based income generating opportunities and entrepreneurship including sustainable beekeeping collective, Ngabe nature guide certification and native fruit tree nursery.

  • growing gardens beneficial to humans and birds at pueblo and Reserva schools and participating households.

  • establishing birding trails and hospitality centers for respectful birdwatching tourists.

  • developing a licensed wild bird rescue, rehab and release center at Sparkroot Wild headquarters.