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Hidden Clover Escudo Island Trip Report

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Report from Hidden Clover Escudo Island Trip during March 22 – April 1, 2013
Executive Summary
Escudo Island is home to many unique species, but continues to be threatened by human activity. Local authorities are eager to work with conservation groups to preserve the island in a manner that

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Pygmy Sloth T-Shirt Available – Proceeds Go to the TREE Foundation’s Sloth Fund

When you buy this tee, you wear it’s story & provide USD $5 USD10 to a special cause…
UPDATE for June 2012: The TREE Foundation is June’s cause of the month for The Tree Shirt House. Therefore for each tee-shirt sale, they double the initial donation of USD5

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Pygmy Sloths of Escudo Island

This video of Pygmy Sloths of Escudo Island was provided by Julia Heckathorn, author of the Search for the Hidden Clover children’s books. To find out more visit the Search for the Hidden Clover website: http://www.searchforthehiddenclover.com

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Bryson Voirin’s blog in the NYT

Bryson Voirin, a long-standing TREE Foundation research associate who has devoted much of his research career to sloth ecology, now has a blog in the Scientists at Work section of the New York Times website.
Below are links to his first two entries. You can view all

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Calling All Sloth Lovers

The Pygmy three-toed sloth is on the list of one of the world’s most endangered animals TREE Foundation has supported the training of canopy students by Meg Lowman,
who in turn taught Bryson Voirin, who in turn has been a long-standing TREE research associate and devoted much of

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