Journal
A Mother’s Day Miracle in French Guiana
A beautiful Mother’s day story to show how important the bond is between a mother sloth and her baby.
May 9, 2020
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GHFS Blog
Education & Research
A Weekend in Galibi
By Ted van Hooff When you think of Green Heritage Fund Suriname, you think of sloths. Yet the foundation does more than rehabilitate this species.
June 30, 2019
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Dolphin Program
An interview with Tomas Willems about Marine Spatial Planning
By Ted van Hooff The sea and coastal area of the Guianas is home to many extraordinary animal species, among which are the Guiana dolphin,
May 11, 2019
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Celebrating the life of Jinkoe
On the 26th of June 2017, which was a national holiday in my country, I was called by an outpatient caretaker. While visiting a patient
May 6, 2019
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News
Rotterdam Man Runs Marathon for GHFS
By Carola PoleyTranslated from Dutch by Ted van Hooff By running the Rotterdam Marathon, Albert Aletrino (21) has raised a significant amount of money for
May 5, 2019
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Journal
A Special Guest
By Ted van Hooff ‘There’s a sloth in a car tire above the water behind my house.’ We find sloths in the strangest places. When
April 29, 2019
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Thank you Sigfried
By Ted van Hooff When Sigfried, a cock who is always alert, starts to crow at a tree in a backyard in South Paramaribo, his
April 9, 2019
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Urban Forest Fragments
World Wildlife Day 2019 In observance of World Wildlife Day on Sunday, the 3rdof March, we wanted to share with you some of our thoughts
March 4, 2019
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A sloth called Cliff
A sloth called Cliff Kenneth started calling me at the end of December 2018 about a two-fingered sloth that was of concern to him. The
February 20, 2019
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Education & Research
Chinese Year of the Pig
Today, the 5th of February 2019 is the first day in the Chinese Year of the Earth Pig. For us that includes also their wild
February 5, 2019
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Wildlife Welfare and Sloths
Suriname is home to two species of sloth, the three-fingered Bradypus tridactylus and the two-fingered Choloepus didactylus. Although neither species is currently considered threatened with extinction [12, 13] ,
January 18, 2019
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Wildlife Welfare and Xenarthra, Dolphins, and Manatees
Wildlife welfare is the field of study that considers how human activities impact the well-being and quality of life of free-living wild animals. Many practices
January 17, 2019
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Fighting mosquitoes by understanding them better
The Fighting Mosquito-borne Illnesses through STEM Education project In Suriname there are a lot of mosquitoes, everyone knows that. Besides the many innocent, but still
January 16, 2019
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Our Journey towards a Plastic Free Suriname
Plastic. It’s hard to imagine a life without plastic products. While plastic can be useful, the manner in which we use it and dispose of
January 15, 2019
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Part 2 – Wildlife Welfare: What it is and why it’s important
WHAT WILDLIFE WELFARE IS NOT Further, there is a difference between animal welfare and animal rights [10], although both fields are grounded in ethical considerations of
January 6, 2019
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References-Wildlife Welfare: What it is and why it’s important
1. Baker, S. E., Cain, R., van Kesteren, F., Zommers, Z. A., D’Cruze, N., & Macdonald, D. W. (2013). Rough Trade: Animal Welfare in the
January 4, 2019
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Part 1 – Wildlife Welfare: What it is and why it’s important
Animal welfare is the answer to the ethical question people have been asking for years: how should humans treat animals? Although certainly grounded in morality
January 2, 2019
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2019 here we come!
We had a wonderful year! Slowly things started falling into place after a bit of a chaotic ending of 2017. But, things started lining up.
December 30, 2018
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World Tamandua Day – 29 November 2018
On the 29th of November we celebrate World Anteater Day. We also say Tamandua Day, because the day originated in Brazil. Anteaters are like sloths
November 28, 2018
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Giving Thanks!
Today we want to focus on giving thanks to our donors, including the anonymous ones. We wanted in particular to highlight the work of one
November 21, 2018
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The Story of 19 November
For some of you, this might be just an ordinary day. Not for Green Heritage Fund Suriname. This day reminds us of a beginning and
November 20, 2018
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Green Community Development Program
The Spirit of Gold
Recently I had the pleasure of working with Faye, an indigenous leader from the Wapishana tribe in the South Rupununi in Guyana. She told me
November 15, 2018
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