Sloth Sanctuary Suriname sequel: the whole story!

by Stg Green Heritage Fund Suriname
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Sloth Sanctuary Suriname sequel: the whole story!
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Sloth Sanctuary Suriname sequel: the whole story!
Sloth Sanctuary Suriname sequel: the whole story!
Sloth Sanctuary Suriname sequel: the whole story!
Sloth Sanctuary Suriname sequel: the whole story!
Sloth Sanctuary Suriname sequel: the whole story!
Sloth Sanctuary Suriname sequel: the whole story!
Sloth Sanctuary Suriname sequel: the whole story!
Sloth Sanctuary Suriname sequel: the whole story!
Sloth Sanctuary Suriname sequel: the whole story!
Sloth Sanctuary Suriname sequel: the whole story!
Sloth Sanctuary Suriname sequel: the whole story!
Sloth Sanctuary Suriname sequel: the whole story!
Sloth Sanctuary Suriname sequel: the whole story!
Sloth Sanctuary Suriname sequel: the whole story!
Sloth Sanctuary Suriname sequel: the whole story!
Sloth Sanctuary Suriname sequel: the whole story!
Sloth Sanctuary Suriname sequel: the whole story!
Sloth Sanctuary Suriname sequel: the whole story!
Sloth Sanctuary Suriname sequel: the whole story!
Sloth Sanctuary Suriname sequel: the whole story!
Sloth Sanctuary Suriname sequel: the whole story!
Sloth Sanctuary Suriname sequel: the whole story!
Sloth Sanctuary Suriname sequel: the whole story!
Sloth Sanctuary Suriname sequel: the whole story!
Sloth Sanctuary Suriname sequel: the whole story!
Sloth Sanctuary Suriname sequel: the whole story!
Sloth Sanctuary Suriname sequel: the whole story!
Sloth Sanctuary Suriname sequel: the whole story!
Sloth Sanctuary Suriname sequel: the whole story!
Sloth Sanctuary Suriname sequel: the whole story!
Sloth Sanctuary Suriname sequel: the whole story!

Project Report | Jan 31, 2020
Patient dropped off by Mother for Treatment

By Monique Pool | Director

Aguilar teaching interactively anteater medicine
Aguilar teaching interactively anteater medicine

Another year has raced by in which we did 148 rescues. We received more reports, but we were not able to get to all of them. For example, someone who called at half past midnight, obviously did not reach us. In the morning, the animal was no longer there. Of these 148 rescues, unfortunately 11 animals did not make it. All other animals were released. And one of those animals we reported on in our last report was Aza-Sita who was in rehabilitation with her broken arm. On the last day of 2019, Aza-Sita was let go. Her arm had healed well and she was also longing to be free, always sitting as high as she could in the enclosure. Such small victories make it all worthwhile.

We started the year in the first full week of January with a Medicine of Anteater workshop taught by Roberto Aguilar DVM, a well-known anteater and wildlife vet, who traveled especially to Suriname to teach for eight Surinamese veterinary doctors. The purpose of the workshop was to inform the Surinamese veterinarians in detail and to enrich their knowledge using case studies and collected data from many different rehabilitation facilities in order to prepare them best for incoming patients in the future. The main goal of Green Heritage Fund Suriname, with which many of the participating veterinarians are already working together on a voluntary basis, is to rescue injured and debilitated animals, restore their health and release them back into their natural habitat.

And this was the opportunity that 19November saw to bring in 9July for treatment of its eye infection on Monday, the first day of the workshop. Aguilar supervised the vets while they were treating the eye-infection. Together they decided 9July would have to remain in our care for three days and be treated three times a day. On Wednesday, the second workshop day, while the veterinarians were gaining practical experience, we observed 19November coming very close to us. As if she was checking to see when we would let 9July go again. After the vets completed their practice and had lunch, we decided to let 9July go. Its eyes were completely cleared up, and it looked rather happy to be free again. 9July had trusted her mother who now has known us for 7 years, to treat it and let it go again.

Thanks to our partner WTG and you, our GlobalGiving donors, we were able to hold this workshop and provide the best care to one baby sloth living close to us. 

9July receiving treatment of its eye infection
9July receiving treatment of its eye infection
Posing dressed in anteater medicine t-shirts
Posing dressed in anteater medicine t-shirts
Released to its mother after treatment
Released to its mother after treatment
Before treatment sitting in the scales
Before treatment sitting in the scales
After treatment just before release
After treatment just before release
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By Monique Pool | Director

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Stg Green Heritage Fund Suriname

Location: Paramaribo - Suriname
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Project Leader:
Wynne Minkes
Paramaribo , Suriname
$155,228 raised of $185,000 goal
 
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