Restoration of the titi monkey habitat.

The work for this project continued this year with several activities.

During the first three months of the year we planted in the demonstration plots another 200 small trees to the 700 that we had already planted here before. Out team continued to monitor the plantations, to check of no disease would endanger the plants and to evaluate the effects of different restoration conditions on the development of the plants. The monitoring of the planted trees makes it possible to adapt our restoration work if we find out that certain tree species are not doing well and need a different treatment than others. If we learn now more about the best restoration methods in the soil and climatic conditions that we work in, we can make our future restoration work more successful.

In the forest we monitor each month the phenology of the trees that could be useful for titi monkeys, and therefore for restoration activities. We have identified hundreds of trees in the home ranges of the titi monkeys, and are still labelling others. With binoculars we register the presence of flowers, fruits and development of leaves. With this information we may become more successful in collecting at the right moment seeds. A good quantity of seeds from 10 trees species were collected in the past few months and were placed in the germination beds.

We have carried out the maintenance work on the different beds where seeds are germinated and the saplings are being planted, until they have the size that they can be used for reforestation.