The Sloth Conservation Foundation

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Hey @SlothanaCoin community! Thank you so much for adopting Nacho 🧡 and supporting our research and conservation efforts! Keep going 💪🏽 ✨️

Hey what's going on here?

#WorldBookDay is here, and if you're a sloth lover, here's a book you might want on your bookshelf!

#IndigenousDay 🌿 Since joining us in 2020, Diego, our forest nursery manager, has been an integral part of our team. He is currently studying Natural Resources Management, and his knowledge of nature, local communities, and botany is vital to our conservation efforts.

The eclipse we saw: (Sound on)

Read the blog here 👇 bit.ly/3rNWz6A #eclipse #eclipse2024 #solareclipse

Blog | Sloths and eclipses 🦥🌔🌓🌒🌑🌘🌗🌖 This time we're not in the path of today's eclipse, but last year, we experienced an annular eclipse here in Costa Rica and we explored some hypotheses about sloths' behavior during events like this.

It’s a sloth FIGHT 🥊 turn the sound up and watch until the end! This video shows two male sloths having the sloth version of a punch up. Sloths are usually very peaceful creatures, but if there is a female nearby looking for a mate - all hell breaks loose.

Join our Connected Gardens team in a Sloth Crossing canopy bridge installation and tree planting. Visit our website to learn more about our conservation initiatives! #CostaRica #PuertoViejo #Sloths

Monday mood:

May you have all the happiness and luck that life can hold—and at the end of your rainbows may you find a sloth. 🍀🦥💚 . . . #StPatricksDay #SaintPatricksDay #PaddysDay #Lucky

Do you sleep like a sloth? 😴 Today is #WorldSleepDay, the perfect time to appreciate sleep with the experts, sloths! But do they really sleep a lot? Check our Slothopedia entry about sloth sleep here: bit.ly/4cgXezE #sleep #sleepy #sloth

By counting sloth poop piles, we can estimate the number of sloths living in an area. Additionally, analyzing these samples allows us to learn more about sloth diets, parasites, and other important aspects about genetics. Learn more: bit.ly/3TjXhBf

Keysha is the dog, and Tamara is the human; together, they are making history. "The Great Sloth Census" is groundbreaking research aimed at understanding the sloth population—we don't yet know how many sloths there are or what the ideal number should be.

"Besides its status as a hub of biodiversity, Costa Rica also produces more pineapple than anywhere else. Almost 50 percent of the pineapples in the world are exported from Costa Rica, including over 80 percent of pineapple consumed in the U.S." bit.ly/3T8lVpj

Amazing footage of a sloth swimming from @guarumolodge and @lahojagarden Did you know that sloths can float thanks to their huge stomachs? And that they are three times faster in water than on land? #sloth #costarica

Our favorite place in the world? 🌳🦥💚

Join our sloth researchers Jose and Jack in their quest to retrieve GPS collars in the jungle! These collars collected millions of data points over six months, and now they're somewhere on the jungle floor waiting for us! Read the blog 👇🏽 bit.ly/4bTtsRg

"I really did not expect to see first-hand the threats sloths are facing." 🦥 Gemma & Tamara from Drusillas Park embarked on a trip to work alongside charity partner @slothcon, and were left speechless by the effects of urbanisation on wild sloths: ow.ly/zL1i50QGa5t

POV the partnership manager is telling you about her favorite candle and how it supports the @SlothCon