Drone capture of the southern coast of isla Escudo de Veraguas. Courtesy Alexis Baúles. Off the coast of Panama’s Bocas del Toro province, lies the small Caribbean island Escudo de Veraguas.

A scene from “Planet Earth II”: Sloths are adept swimmers, as this pygmy three-toed sloth demonstrates. Found on the tiny island of Escudo de Veraguas, Panama, it’s the smallest of all sloth ...

A rare pygmy three-toed sloth stirred an international controversy after officials of the Dallas World Aquarium caught and crated six of the creatures on Isla Escudo de Veraguas, an island off Panama.

Escudo de Veraguas is also home to an endemic hummingbird species and an endemic bat species. Its beaches are important for nesting sea turtles and its flora remains understudied.

Escudo de Veraguas is also home to an endemic hummingbird species and an endemic bat species. Its beaches are important for nesting sea turtles and its flora remains understudied.

Pygmy sloths only live in Escudo de Veraguas Island in Panama, and as of the last official IUCN assessment in 2013, there are believed to be less than a 100 pygmy sloths left in the world.

Escudo de Veraguas, an island known for its lush forests and crystalline waters, is roughly one hour from Rio Caña, an Indigenous Ngäbe Buglé community, featured on a new tourism network in Panama.

At only 430 hectares, Escudo de Veraguas Island is a small island and the pygmy sloths remain Critically Endangered. However, this new information means they may be slightly further from ...

Washington, D.C. – AWI today filed an emergency petition to list the pygmy three-toed sloth (Bradypus pygmaeus) as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA). Endemic to Panama’s Isla ...

Journalist Ana Salceda searches for pygmy three-toed sloths (Bradypus pygmaeus) on Isla Escudo de Veraguas, a small island off the coast of Panama. What she finds exceeds her expectations–a ...

As part of their Animals on the Edge programme, Lucy Cooke joins a team of conservationists from the Zoological Society London to survey a group of the world's smallest sloth species on the ...

As part of their Animals on the Edge programme, Lucy Cooke joins a team of conservationists from the Zoological Society London to survey a group of the world's smallest sloth species on the ...