First identified as a distinct sloth species in 2001, pygmy three-toed sloths live on Isla Escudo de Veraguas in Panama. The species does not fare ... The animals were then returned to the island. If ...

Equipped with vast swathes of tangled rainforest and both a Pacific and Caribbean coast, the Central American nation of Panama is rife ... the crown jewel for Veraguas island ecotourism.

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 uninhabited Isla Escudo de Veraguas, a tiny island off ...