Amazing study about Swimming Sloth Ancestors
Please check out this article if you are interested in knowing more about the swimming sloth ancestors of our contemporary sloths. http://www.eartharchives.org/articles/the-giant-sloths-that-lived-in-the-sea/
In Praise of Slowness Monique and the Sloths
We are very honoured with the beautiful French documentary highlighting the work of Monique Pool and her team. Franck Sanson from Prontoprod, and his team, Tom Peyrat, Philippine Hattemberg, Laurene Da Palma Cavaco, Mathieu Tiger, Pauline Clermidy, Patrick Mancini, is making us very proud that he chose the work we do for this 53 minute […]
GHFS and Welttierschutzgesellschaft e.v. Renew Partnership
At the end of March the Surinamese and German NGO partners signed a new partnership agreement to continue the rescue and rehabilitation work of sloths, anteaters and armadillos in Suriname. The new agreement is partially a continuation of the previous agreement with Welttierschutzgesellschaft. The goals are to rescue, shelter and rehabilitate these typical South American […]
Science Advances publish about Ground Sloth Hunt
Science Advances published an article on what possibly may have been a Ground Sloth Hunt by humans. Footprints preserve terminal Pleistocene hunt? Human-sloth interactions in North America David Bustos,1 Jackson Jakeway,1 Tommy M. Urban,2 Vance T. Holliday,3,4 Brendan Fenerty,4David A. Raichlen,3 Marcin Budka,5 Sally C. Reynolds,5 Bruce D. Allen,6 David W. Love,6Vincent L. Santucci,7 Daniel […]
Sloth Award 2017
Paramaribo – the Green Heritage Fund Suriname (GHFS) has extended the Sloth Award 2017 to Wynne Minkes. Minkes has given her time and energy to the foundation since 2012, when she came in contact with the foundation’s dolphin work at the beginning of 2012. This was the same year that the great sloth rescue took […]
Dolphins at risk from our bad management of the Ocean
We had already heard that the dolphins in Brazil were very polluted, but now there is even more evidence that dolphins may actually be the canary for our oceans. The new canary in the coal mine: dolphins
Ancient Species of Megatherium found in Mexico
Mexican scientists said Wednesday they have discovered the fossilized remains of a previously unknown species of giant sloth that lived 10,000 years ago and died at the bottom of a sinkhole. Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-08-ancient-species-giant-sloth-mexico.html#jCp
A Very Special Animal: the Sloth
Ruben Leter and his colleague student Bregje Bouma from the School for Journalism in Utrecht, the Netherlands, visited us just before we are moving. For the TV program NOON, which is broadcast every Friday on RTV Utrecht, 10 students from this school travelled to Suriname for two weeks to make two episodes. We were very […]
Travel tip: Watching sloths in Suriname (cuddling not allowed)
30 June 2017, 15:00 Monique Pool Photo Marcel Wogram https://www.volkskrant.nl/beter-leven/reistip-bekijk-de-luiaard-van-dichtbij-in-suriname- knuffelen-mag-helaas-niet~b324d738/ Few animals are as cute as a sloth. You wouldn’t think it, if you see the slow mammal hanging on a branch, but once the sloth looks at you – with his beady eyes and panda smile – you are done for. In the […]
Environmental Organizations oppose beach sand mining at Braamspunt
WWF, CI Suriname, Green Heritage Fund Suriname and the SHATA are seriously concerned about the fact that the government once again gave permission to mine sand at Braamspunt. Braamspunt has become an important nesting beach for sea turtles for several years now and is a tourist attraction. In addition, Braamspunt is important as coastal defense of Paramaribo North […]
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