SAVING THE BABY SLOTH: HERMOSA RESCUE CENTER: FEELING BETTER

An amazing series telling the story of the baby sloth so well, your animal images are always just that bit different. Not actions shots or set up images, if they were of humans I would say candid portraits, animals have no feelings of looking good for the camera, so these truly can be called candid and also so very good.

Well done Dora, nicely done and you'd have to be made of stone not to be touched by the fragile look of this little sloth hanging onto life with both claws.

Dougie Salteri

The mothers are killed; the babies captured and sold into the pet

trade. Sometimes poachers are pursued by police and throw the baby out

a car window to get rid of the evidence. Other times gullible owners

soon find out that wild animals don't usually make good pets and

dispose of them. The objective of the Tierra Hemosa Animal Rescue in

Puerto Viejop de Sarapiqui, Costa Rica. is to help these abused

animals recover and return them to the rainforest. Her name was Lola;

she didn't survuive.

Suggestion welcomed. Thanks

Photographs like this can be an important tool in the fight against the wild animal trade.  It makes the problem and the story so much more real.  Keep at it, please.