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+506 8775 6847

The Sloth Institute
C/O Tulemar Gardens
Calle Principal, Manuel Antonio, Quepos
Provincia de Puntarenas
Costa Rica 60601

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 a fragmented rainforest.
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#40 wild sloth crossing the road Raspberry on a sloth speedway

As trees disappear, sloths lose their natural highways through the canopy, the connections that once gave them safe access to food, shelter, and rest. Cut off from those routes, they’re forced to the ground where predators wait, or onto roads and power lines where the outcome is often fatal.

Displaced sloths also face malnutrition, chronic stress, and greater exposure to illness. Without secure forest pathways, the long-term survival of wild sloth populations is at serious risk.

That’s why we created Sloth Speedways: specially placed rope bridges that reconnect fragmented rainforest canopy. They let sloths travel between trees safely, without ever touching the ground or coming near a road or power line.

THE METHOD

Reconnect the Forest
We install wildlife rope bridges at key points where sloths naturally travel, restoring the canopy connections that deforestation cut off, and giving other arboreal animals a safer route too.

THE PLANNING

More than Rope
Every Speedway location is chosen deliberately. Our team maps sloth movement patterns and habitat gaps first, then places bridges where they'll do the most good, not just wherever rope will reach.

THE BIGGER PICTURE

Part of a Bigger Fight

Speedways solve one danger. Sloths and monkeys still face the risk of electrocution on nearby power lines, which is why this program works hand in hand with our #ENDELECTROCUTIONS campaign to guide animals away from wires entirely.

LEARN MORE HERE 

2025 Speedway Installations in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica