SPIDER MONKEY CONSERVATION PROJECT

During 2022 we were unable to meet the research and environmental education objectives, due to lack of resources.

Auckland Zoo has just approved a research project and an environmental education project.

This year we continue working with the Caparo Ranger Project and we want to maintain the educational and reforestation projects annually, as well as more research projects with the groups of monkeys in the forest and monkeys in forest fragments. We need to keep monitoring the spider monkeys that are isolated in the Anaru Caño, working with the community to find a way to restore degraded areas to make an ecological corridor. We need to acquire camera traps and a drone to monitor the presence of other mammals and degraded areas.

Another proposal is the creation of a biological station, fixing some abandoned houses that are in the area of the university camp.

Our main difficulty is the problem of gasoline that prevents us from going to remote places by motorcycle, there are no gas stations nearby and we cannot store gasoline, the closest towns are 1 hour from the reserve. In the past, gasoline from one of the university vehicles was used, we also went to some places with this vehicle, but currently all are damaged.

Thank you all for supporting this project, this help has been vital for the protection of the Caparo forest and its biodiversity