Tracking Diaries Faith Ellison • Urban Sloth Project Tracking Diaries Faith Ellison • Urban Sloth Project

A little bit of Faith | Tracking Diaries #14

Hello! I’m Faith, a student from the UK, currently doing a 12-month research placement with the Sloth Conservation Foundation working towards my degree in Zoology. Believe it or not I came across SloCo while online shopping. I was looking at a sustainable clothing brand that donates to several wildlife charities to aid conservation efforts, one of them being SloCo.

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Tracking Diaries José Pablo Guzmán García • The Urban Sloth Project Lead Researcher Tracking Diaries José Pablo Guzmán García • The Urban Sloth Project Lead Researcher

The best job I have ever had | Tracking Diaries #13

I have been working as a researcher for SloCo for only 7 months. The time has passed extremely fast, and still, I have learned incredible things that can only be taught in the field, working with people face to face and always improving my skills, not only my knowledge as a scientist but improving my second language which is English (people say I can speak good but I know I can get better at it).

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Tracking Diaries Ames Reeder • Urban Sloth Project Tracking Diaries Ames Reeder • Urban Sloth Project

Watch out! | Tracking Diaries #11

The sea breeze is a welcome relief as we crest the final switchback and come out on top of the cliff. I take off my hat and let the wind run through my hair. It’s too hot to dry us out much, but the view from up here is my favorite in all of Puerto Viejo: the seething white and blue waves beneath us, the mist-shrouded distant horizon, and the sunlit local Cocles Island.

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Tracking Diaries Ames Reeder • Urban Sloth Project Tracking Diaries Ames Reeder • Urban Sloth Project

Courage: Tracking Diaries #9

I stare at the spider hanging in front of my face. It is huge, blue and black and yellow, hanging from a golden web longer than my bicycle and better constructed than my house. It stares back at me.

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Tracking Diaries Ames Reeder • Urban Sloth Project Tracking Diaries Ames Reeder • Urban Sloth Project

Tracking Diaries #4: Questioning Assumptions

“I don’t even know what’s real anymore!” Amanda wails. We are tracking a sloth named Alan through the Cacao Forest, which I am thinking of renaming the Fairy Forest, because the lack of visibility and the way the radio signals bounce around is truly otherworldly. Also, the Bermuda Triangle is already taken.

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Tracking Diaries Ames Reeder • Urban Sloth Project Tracking Diaries Ames Reeder • Urban Sloth Project

Conservation and Mental Health. Tracking Diaries #3

They say that looking at trees can improve your mood. Merely being in the presence of these grand monuments of nature is credited with boosting the immune system, lowering blood pressure, lowering stress, accelerating recovery from injury, even increasing altruistic tendencies and curing ADHD.

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Tracking Diaries Ames Reeder • Urban Sloth Project Tracking Diaries Ames Reeder • Urban Sloth Project

All sexes, genders, colors and, species. Tracking Diaries #1

“Oh my gosh,” says my boss, holding the binoculars to her face. “I think Croissant is a boy.” I take my eyes off the beeping box attached to our portable radio antenna and peer into the trees, trying to find the small, tan-colored sloth amongst the palm fronts and tree bark. Boy or girl, I personally think Croissant might actually be a coconut, but I defer to Amelia’s experience.

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