Meet Sophie: A Survivor’s Story and Why Sloth Speedways Matter
Rescued from a brutal dog attack, Sophie the three-fingered sloth is on the road to recovery....
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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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 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.
Monitored in and around the Speedway Areas of 2025
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In 2025, TSI installed at least 750 meters of Sloth Speedways across four locations in the South Pacific of Costa Rica: Playa Matapalo and Playa Zancudo in Costa Rica, and Bocas del Toro and Red Frog Beach in Panama. This marks TSI’s first international Speedway installations, a significant milestone in expanding our reach.
Monitoring in 2025
TSI monitored 9 sloths in and around Speedway areas throughout the year: one two-fingered adult female, three three-fingered adult females, two three-fingered adult males with amputations, two three-fingered juvenile males, and one three-fingered juvenile female.
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