Adopt a Sloth

Adopt a sloth and help Sloth Conservation safeguard a future for sloths!  A great gift for anyone who truly loves sloths and nature, and who would love to do their bit.  It's also a great gift for someone who has everything and who values the natural world. 

All proceeds from the Adopt a Sloth programme go towards funding their in-field sloth conservation programme so your adoption really is helping sloths!

You can choose between a virtual or physical package.

Adopt a Sloth from the Sloth Conservation Foundation
from $25 a month

The Sloth Conservation Foundation says that 100% of your donation will go towards funding real conservation solutions in Costa Rica to help save sloths and protect their natural environment.   The adoption program funds reforestation efforts, wildlife bridge installations, education outreach program, castration campaigns for dogs, insulation of power lines to prevent electrocutions, and more!  So yes, it will help sloths, bless them

Adopt a Sloth from the Sloth Conservation Foundation

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About the Sloth Conservation Foundation

The Sloth Conservation Foundation (SloCo) was founded in 2016 by Dr Rebecca Cliffe, a sloth researcher.  It is dedicated to saving sloths in the wild.

Dr. Cliffe has worked extensively in the field with sloths for over 10 years.  She has conducted field research and published many scientific papers regarding the ecology, biology, genetics and physiology of sloths in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Brazil. During this time, she has seen the problems that wild sloth populations are facing.   And so SloCo was founded, determined to stimulate progressive change and achieve lasting solutions through research and conservation initiatives.

About sloths and why they need help

For sloths are creatures of habit.   They are beautifully adapted for life high up in the canopy of tropical rainforests.  They hardly need to come down to the ground.  But of course, the rainforest on which they depend is being disturbed by human development – and that activity is cutting the forest into small, isolated segments.  And the sloths, creatures of habit, cannot adapt.  So we are going to need long-term conservation solutions which meet the needs of both people and sloths, so that they can co-exist long term.

SloCo's approach

Today, SloCo has developed a variety of strategies and programmes which aim to achieve this long term co-existence.   These include increasing habitat connectivity in urban areas, educating children in local communities and conducting scientific research into many different aspects of sloth biology and ecology. 

Visit the Sloth Conservation Foundation's website here