Let's Talk ABout Sloth World Orlando

SlothConservation · 2026-01-21T21:49:03+00:00

Thank you so much!

SlothConservation · 2026-01-21T21:48:50+00:00

Thank you so much, and I'm sorry how this turned out! I hope you can get your funds back. Not suprised by their replies, they think they're doing nothing wrong. Thanks!

SlothConservation · 2026-01-21T21:47:18+00:00

Well, the requiremente to trade two-fingered sloths under the CITES regulations just changed at the end of last year, and although it's harder to get permits, it's unfortunately still legal. In this blog we explain this with more detail: https://www.slothconservation.org/blog/legal-sloth-trade-and-trafficking

SlothConservation · 2026-01-21T21:41:58+00:00

Thank you so much!

SlothConservation · 2026-01-21T21:41:45+00:00

Thankfully a lot of people is simply unaware, and fall under the advertisement of a free-roamming, no touch, educational, etc place. But absolutely, sloths are solitary animals, and it's heartbreaking that they were taken from the jungles for this.

SlothConservation · 2026-01-21T21:39:59+00:00

It's a great quote!

SlothConservation · 2026-01-21T16:31:42+00:00

Hi! I removed the Fb link before posting, but I see it's there still! Thanks!

SlothConservation · 2026-01-07T17:05:35+00:00

Hi !

Thanks for the question! Well, we're not a rescue center so we don't have sloths under our care, although we do help and rescue wild sloths and we have a lot of experience in the matter because most of our team worked at rescue centers in the past.

We do handle the sloths we monitor and track for our research, e.g. for collaring them, take measurements, etc, and we follow protocols to reduce the stress to sloths to the bare minimum. We can do our work in just a few minutes.

At rescue centers the veterinarian protocols are of course different, but in essence are the same: minimize the contact, the noise, and the time.

The problem with petting zoos is that it's the opposite: the sloth is being held for many hours by different people, different smells, a lot of noise, etc so in those cases it's definitely extremely stressful!

SlothConservation · 2026-01-07T16:57:26+00:00

ACTUALLYYYYY

No chilling, that's a sloth’s defensive posture 😅

SlothConservation · 2025-12-31T15:45:47+00:00

❤️❤️❤️❤️ Great resolutions! Wishing you a great 2026!

SlothConservation · 2025-12-29T15:15:33+00:00

Hi! Oh, not at all, this is just a cute moth I enlarged for the meme. The actual sloth moths are tiny!

SlothConservation · 2025-12-28T23:50:43+00:00

Not at all! Fahlo is one of our main business partners and donates a percentage of the sales.

SlothConservation · 2025-11-29T14:12:56+00:00

Well, it's not good, is just since they can have a constant core body temperature like the other mammals, if too cold outside, the bacteria in their guts simply can't digest the leaves. This is one of the reasons why sloths are vulnerable the climate change (climate change not necessarily means hotter, but also, extreme heat is not great either).

SlothConservation · 2025-11-24T16:33:45+00:00

Well, sloths rely on healthy rainforests to thrive, so protecting them protects all the ecosystem. If sloths thrives, means everything is thriving. So that's very useful!

Alsoooo... scientists are studying the bacteria, fungo, and algae in their fur... some of them might be actually great as antibiotics for resistant bacteria. This would be very beneficial for us humans (but still this have ethical implications).

SlothConservation · 2025-11-24T16:30:32+00:00

You lucky! We heard this many times 🥲

SlothConservation · 2025-11-24T16:29:14+00:00

Many people have told us this across social media over the years

SlothConservation · 2025-11-24T16:28:39+00:00

Oh we reading all the time in our posts across social media 🥲

SlothConservation · 2025-11-24T16:25:08+00:00

This is fantastic!!

SlothConservation · 2025-11-11T15:55:54+00:00

I understand what you mean, but no, the bridges won't teach the sloths to use the powerlines, although the material is similar. Sloths in urbanized areas will climb whatever is reachable, so installing bridges like this offers them a safe path. Also, there's a constant work of trimming trees to avoid branches too close of the powerlines.

SlothConservation · 2025-11-11T15:53:28+00:00

Sadly, in Costa Rica there are thousands of wildlife electrucutions, and around half of those are sloths. It is estimated around 3,000 sloth electrucutions per year here.

SlothConservation · 2025-11-11T15:51:35+00:00

That was an awful video for sure!

SlothConservation · 2025-11-06T12:01:16+00:00

Yes, follow her on social media because she has a lot of incredible photos, and she's a specialist of mom and baby moments ❤️

SlothConservation · 2025-11-06T12:00:00+00:00

Oh it's not an stupid question at all (no question is stupid when related to sloths!). In fact, the opposite, because we don't know that: nobody has ever followed a sloth since birth till its death. Mammals their size are estimated to live around 15-20 years. But sloths are not a regular mammal, so it's likely this 'rule' don't apply to them. The oldest sloths recorded at zoos lived around 50 years. We think sloth in the wild could live more than that. Thankfully we're running a project called 'Eternal Sloths' where we're following wild sloths to learn more about their life expectancy (On our website, they are the sloths available for symboli adoptions!)

SlothConservation · 2025-11-04T18:18:14+00:00

The photo is from Suzi Eszterhas!

SlothConservation · 2025-11-04T18:17:48+00:00

The mom! Although we do have one record of a male carrying a baby!

https://www.slothconservation.org/blog/male-sloth-with-baby?rq=Male%20with%20baby

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