Solutions that support wildlife conservation and biodiversity are right up our alley, and efforts to help sloths safely navigate forests in the face of urbanization is the newest example. Keeping sloths away from predators and man-made threats, such as cars, is crucial to ensuring their survival.
Seeing the need for a safe method of passage within fragmented forests, the Sloth Conservation Foundation set up rope bridges. The impact of this conservation effort doesn’t start and end with sloths: at least 14 other species have utilized the rope bridges according to camera traps.
In response to these efforts, “a conservation project in Brazil recognized it was similar to the challenge faced by the endangered northern maned sloth, a species endemic to the country’s Atlantic Forest.”
Posted: December 20, 2025