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This Woman in Suriname Has Rescued More than 1,000 Sloths
By Ellyn Kail on February 15, 2021
Monique Pool weighs and photographs a rescue sloth named Ostrich at her rehabilitation center in Saramacca, Suriname. Ostrich received her name because as a baby she was found hanging out near the ostriches at the zoo in Paramaribo separated from her mother.
Pool’s efforts in conservation and sloth rescue are a combination of being self-taught and reaching out for help to sloth specialists in Brazil and Costa Rica.
Before he traveled to Suriname, the photojournalist Justin Mott had never seen a sloth in person. He had first heard about the country’s sloths in the aftermath of 2012’s “Slothageddon,” a large deforestation event near Paramaribo, when a friend from the German animal welfare organization WTG told him about Monique Pool, a woman who had rescued 135 displaced sloths in the area.
Meet the Woman Risking Her Life to Protect the Endangered Gibbon
By Ellyn Kail on February 10, 2021
Bam Ramli, 33, founder of the GPSM (Gibbon Protection Society of Malaysia) holds 9 month-old Cinta at an undisclosed location in Pahang, Malaysia. Cinta was rescued from online traders during a sting operation. Bam is currently using her own house for the infants because they need constant care and GPSM doesn’t have the proper facilities yet. She says, “infants need a warm environment at night and need to be given milk every 4 hours.”
Bam is working tirelessly with the government of Malaysia to try to gain permission to build the first ever gibbon rehabilitation center in Malaysia. The GPSM operates off of Bam’s own money and private donations.
By Ellyn Kail on February 3, 2021
A sick pangolin receives fluids and has a medical check-up at Save Vietnam’s Wildlife
Pangolins are largely covered in scales made of keratin-the same material found in human fingernails.
“Most people don’t know anything about pangolins, never mind that they are near extinct,” the photographer Justin Mott tells us. He encountered these mammals, believed to be the most trafficked in the world, while visiting Save Vietnam’s Wildlife in Cuc Phuong National Park as part of
Kindred Guardians, a long-term project about exploited animals and the humans who help them.
As a wildlife photojournalist, Mott has witnessed the plight of multiple species, but nothing could have prepared him for the pangolins. “The pangolin issue is easily the most underrepresented, and sadly, I feel it’s also the most pressing and dire,” he says. “They are overlooked simply because a lot of people don’t even know what they are. To many, they aren’t as