Auteur: Monique Pool

Breaking news from the Sloth Wellness Center

We have now moved a little over a year ago to the Sloth Wellness Center, where the long-term residents Lucas, 19November and Ann (5 years in our care), as well as Anna (1 year in our care) and Beertje have found a new home in the forest surrounding our facilities. We regularly see 19November, Anna […]

Zie Mariene Interacties: Belangenbehartiging Voor De Oceaan En Weerbaarheid Aan De Kust

School visits to inform students from senior secondary school about the sea of Suriname in the capital Paramaribo are conducted by the GHFS team. At each of the visits students are surveyed to gauge their knowledge and interest in the marine area of Suriname and beyond. See Marine Interactions works on people centered advocacy required to […]

Wereld Oceaandag En March For The Ocean 2018

  Paramaribo – Friday, June 8 is World Ocean Day, a fact that Green Heritage Fund Suriname in collaboration with The American Corner of the American Embassy and WWF Guianas this year wants to commemorate with the film Mission Blue. In addition, a major awareness event will be held on Saturday, June 9 at the […]

Beeldverslag Luiaard Opvang Centrum 5 - Beetje Bij Beetje...

Thanks to important donations from Kosmos Energy and the continuation of our partnership with Welttierschutzgesellschaft and of course our loyal donors through Global Giving we are now finishing the Intensive Care unit, the access to the IC unit, the animal treatment room, and the animal kitchen. We also worked on upgrading the human kitchen, so […]

Lof Voor Traagheid Monique En De Luiaards

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 […]

Green Heritage Fund Suriname En Welttierschutzgesellschaft E.v. Hernieuwen Partnerschap

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 […]

Luiaard 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 […]