A Smithsonian scientist found that pygmy sloths wander inland in addition to inhabiting the mangrove fringes of their island refuge. He realized that the population size of the pygmy sloth was ...

image: The Pygmy Sloth is only found on Escudo de Veraguas Island in Panama. view more Credit: Courtesy of Bryson Voirin. A Smithsonian scientist found that pygmy sloths wander inland in addition ...

An Indigenous Language Book Presents the Unique Biodiversity of a Panamanian Island. Botanist Alicia Ibañez hopes the book, which presents new data on the tiny island’s endemic flora and fauna ...

Escudo de Veraguas, Panama. They live nowhere else in the world. ... Only described by researchers in 2001, the pygmy sloth lives on a single uninhabited island off the coast of Panama.

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.

Sigler and Richardson, who say they want to study the animals’ digestive and reproductive habits, said the aquarium has been involved in conservation efforts on Isla Escudo de Veraguas, going so ...

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.

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 ...

Escudo de Veraguas is only nominally protected and developers have the island in their crosshairs -- one proposal calls for turning the place into a semi-autonomous tax haven boasting a marina ...

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.