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Help Us Build Sloth Speedways:
Reconnecting Rainforests, Saving Lives
In Honor of World Environment Day – Our Goal: $8,000
Imagine navigating your home blindfolded—with no roads, no safe paths, and danger lurking at every turn.
That’s what it’s like for sloths in the rainforest today.
As deforestation carves up their natural habitat, sloths are left stranded in isolated patches of forest, desperately trying to reach the food, shelter, and safety they once had access to. This journey can be fatal. When trees are gone, sloths are forced down to the ground where predators wait, or they attempt to cross roads and power lines, resulting in electrocution, injuries, or death.
At The Sloth Institute, we’re working to change that.
🪢 What Are Sloth Speedways?
Sloth Speedways are strategically placed canopy bridges that reconnect fragmented rainforest habitats, giving sloths (and other arboreal wildlife like monkeys and kinkajous) a safe and reliable route through the treetops, where they belong.
But here’s what makes our approach different:
Beyond Roads: Most rope bridges are built over busy roads, but sloths don’t just need help crossing highways. They need their forest home back. We install bridges deep inside the jungle, where we know sloths are trying to move and forage.
Electrocution Prevention: Many animals climb on electric wires even when rope bridges are present. That’s why we’re focused on reconnecting safe forest habitats so animals aren’t drawn to dangerous manmade structures.
Built with Purpose: Each Sloth Speedway is built based on direct observation and GPS tracking of wild sloths and their natural movement patterns.
These aren’t just ropes. They’re lifelines.
Why it Matters:
Sloths need continuous canopy to survive. When they lose access to food and shelter, they become malnourished, stressed, sick, and are exposed to predators and extreme weather.
By reconnecting rainforest patches, Sloth Speedways:
Reduce wildlife deaths from roads and power lines
Give mothers safe routes to forage while raising babies
Help sloths maintain healthy territories and reduce stress
Support biodiversity by benefiting many other species
Every bridge we build saves lives.
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Help Us Raise $8,000 for World Environment Day
This World Environment Day, we need your help to build more Sloth Speedways and expand this critical program.
Your donation helps us scout, build, install, and maintain these bridges.
Every dollar brings us closer to creating a safer, more connected rainforest.
Together, we can protect one of the most iconic and vulnerable species in the rainforest.
Reconnect the Forest. Reconnect the Future.
Deforestation isn’t slowing down—but neither are we. Join us in giving sloths the safe passage they need to survive and thrive. Help us build the bridges that reconnect the rainforest, one canopy at a time.
Together, we can make every day a little greener, for sloths and the planet.
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