Return of the Sloth

Roughly three and a half years ago, our neighbor did a major tree trimming. Before that, we regularly saw 3-toed sloths just off our balcony in the cecropia tree. Afterwards, we never saw a sloth again because the sloths couldn’t reach the cecropia tree from the surrounding branches. In December, during our last trip to …

Dian Fossey, the Mountain Gorillas and Me

Conservation of the Mountain Gorilla: a Snapshot from 1978 In 1978, I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Rwanda working on fish culture development. On July 4 of that year, I attended the U.S. ambassador’s Independence Day party. A friend of mine, Bill Weber, came over to me and told me that he had just …