Category: Xenarthra Program

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 […]

Sloths one year at the Sloth Wellness Center in Saramacca

When I first arrived in Suriname, I had little knowledge about the small, slow, incredible creatures I would soon grow to love. In the United States, sloths are internet sensations. Due to their specialized lifestyle and fragile nature, sloths, particularly three-fingered species, are not common zoo animals. So, the only real exposure to these animals […]

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/  

Picture Report Sloth Wellness Center 5 – Little by Little…

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 […]

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 […]

Thank you from the Sloth Wellness Center-Slothful New Year 2018!

  When we heard on the 4th of January that we really had to move, we were shocked because we had a deadline, but also grateful that our landlord gave us the opportunity to set our own deadline. He even allowed us when the time neared to extend it by a month. So we moved, […]