“You can’t save an animal you know nothing about.” — Diorene Smith While we all may have to be isolating a bit longer until the vaccine becomes available to everyone, we can at least read about this fascinating and adorable case of “The Island Rule”. Bradypus pygmaeus,
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Written by and illustrations created by Lilia Robinowitz, TREE Foundation Summer 2020 Intern, Williams College Class of 2022 How many species of sloths are there? Six: Pygmy three-toed sloth (Bradypus pygmaeus), Maned sloth (Bradypus -*torquatus), Pale-throated sloth (Bradypus tridactylus), Brown-throated sloth (Bradypus variegatus), Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth (Choloepus
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From Mongabay.com: Sloths sleep all day; they are always slow; and they are gentle animals. These are just some of the popular misconceptions that sloth-scientist and expert tree-climber, Bryson Voirin, is overturning. After growing up among the wild creatures of Florida, spending his high school years in
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These young girls have raised over $300 within their “Save the Sloths” group at school. They plan to continue to learn about sloths, educate others, and raise money to support sloth conservation.
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Want to know what the TREE Foundation’s first-ever Intern is up to (literally)? Here are some images of Bryson Voirin, who studies sleep and ecology of arboreal mammals. Way back when he was a college freshman, Meg Lowman taught Bryson how to climb a tree. Now he
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Instead of receiving presents for his birthday, 9-yr-old Harry requested donations in order to help his favorite animals, the sloths. Way to go, Harry!!!
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International Sloth Day was created by Foundation AIUNAU who proposed this international day at the First International Meeting about the Wellbeing, Rehabilitation and Conservation of Sloths, held in Medellin, Colombia, in November of 2010. It was created as it was necessary to bring the world of sloths
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From Mongabay.com: Last Monday (9 September 2013), the police officer on morning duty at Isla Colón International Airport, Panama noticed some foreigners loading crates with what appeared to be animals on a private jet. Finding this suspicious, he alerted his supervisor. Within minutes the local police chief,
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In the letter below, Bryson Voirin, a long-standing TREE Foundation research associate, gives an overview of the pygmy sloth export incident that occurred on September 9, 2013, and describes what the future plans may hold. Dear Pygmy Sloth Enthusiasts, I’d like to take a few moments and
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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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