I'm a friendly, non-dev, cisgender guy from NC who enjoys playing music/making noise, hiking, eating veggies, and hanging out with my best friend/wife + our 3 kitties + 1 greyhound.
What's something particularly interesting and lesser known about sloth behavior? (I'm editing my question here as I realize it overlaps with a few others, haha!)
New question — how are y'all (SloCo) dealing with COVID-19? Can you talk about the impact the virus has had on the org and wildlife conservation in general?
Our team at SloCo are all quarantined in Costa Rica and so we have had to put a lot of our sloth conservation programs on hold temporarily (particularly those involving the community). Charitable giving is understandably not very high on anyone’s priority list at the moment and so we are working on developing a strategy to see us through these difficult times. It is of course a very stressful situation for everyone at the moment.
On a more positive note, we are using this time in isolation as an opportunity to diversify our income and get our projects organised behind-the-scenes. We have lots of exciting new ideas that we are working on and I really think our programs are going to benefit from this time in isolation in the long-run.
The virus seems to have had varying degrees of impact on wildlife conservation. Of course, the silver lining to the global lockdowns has been the massive drop in pollution. Mother Nature is bouncing back. It will be interesting to see how life resumes after the global lock-down ends. Hopefully we will all come out of this more caring and compassionate towards the planet! Unfortunately a lot of wildlife conservation efforts (including SloCo) are taking a huge financial hit and programs have had to be suspended. Big funding sources have dried up (e.g. funding through zoos) and fundraising events have all been cancelled. No one can really predict how things are going to play out for the rest of the year, but our team are all grateful that we are safe and healthy here in Costa Rica!
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So awesome!
What's something particularly interesting and lesser known about sloth behavior?(I'm editing my question here as I realize it overlaps with a few others, haha!)New question — how are y'all (SloCo) dealing with COVID-19? Can you talk about the impact the virus has had on the org and wildlife conservation in general?
Hi Michael!
Our team at SloCo are all quarantined in Costa Rica and so we have had to put a lot of our sloth conservation programs on hold temporarily (particularly those involving the community). Charitable giving is understandably not very high on anyone’s priority list at the moment and so we are working on developing a strategy to see us through these difficult times. It is of course a very stressful situation for everyone at the moment.
On a more positive note, we are using this time in isolation as an opportunity to diversify our income and get our projects organised behind-the-scenes. We have lots of exciting new ideas that we are working on and I really think our programs are going to benefit from this time in isolation in the long-run.
The virus seems to have had varying degrees of impact on wildlife conservation. Of course, the silver lining to the global lockdowns has been the massive drop in pollution. Mother Nature is bouncing back. It will be interesting to see how life resumes after the global lock-down ends. Hopefully we will all come out of this more caring and compassionate towards the planet! Unfortunately a lot of wildlife conservation efforts (including SloCo) are taking a huge financial hit and programs have had to be suspended. Big funding sources have dried up (e.g. funding through zoos) and fundraising events have all been cancelled. No one can really predict how things are going to play out for the rest of the year, but our team are all grateful that we are safe and healthy here in Costa Rica!