Remember Dolly the two-fingered sloth? She was receiving experimental acupuncture treatment for an injury due to an electrocution from a power line. Her treatments were donated by Dr. Constant Boshoff,… read more →
Remember the incredible story about Dolly receiving acupuncture? Now her friend Enrique is receiving acupuncture too! Enrique seems to have some movement problems in his right side, both his right… read more →
The Sloth Institute’s Carole introduces us to Nemo in the video below! Nemo has been with TSI for a little over a month now. We originally received a call from… read more →
Amy and Aretha were both orphaned in October/November of 2017 and weighed around the same size (500g). They have been best friends since their rescue and Amy is certainly… read more →
The Sloth Institute first met Lumiere when he was 3 months old with his mom, Mrs. Potts. About a month later during one of our sloth walks, Lumiere was found… read more →
About a month ago The Sloth Institute received an urgent phone call at 3am resulting in us picking up a 2 fingered female who was electrocuted when she climbed on… read more →
Please welcome our newest guest blogger, Amanda! She is our Volunteer Supervisor stationed in Sarapiqui where The Sloth Institute and Toucan Rescue Ranch jointly have a sloth release site close… read more →
Firefighters recently helped save this two-fingered sloth off of wires after she had already been electrocuted. She has burns all down the left side of her body, across her stomach… read more →
Santana, a two-fingered male sloth who we estimated to be about a year old, is one of our “Saving Sloths Together” (SST) sloths. This project is partnered with the Toucan Rescue… read more →
Abusing sloths for selfie tourism is one of the conservation issues that we are very passionate about correcting here at TSI, but it is one that we often thought would… read more →
