In today’s post we want to continue mentioning some of our collaborations and projects from 2023. This year also give us the opportunity to know and support an incredible nature tourist project lead by Cesar Angel and his company Nature Trips Colombia that is supporting nature tourism projects in Vista Hermosa area where ornate titi monkeys are used as an umbrella species to incentivize sustainable economic alternatives in an area that suffers from violence over the past decades.
Additionally we continue supporting Cumaral biodiversa and El Silencio farm in their effort to monitor and map Brumback night monkey’s nest in Cumaral town. We also support them in their efforts to learn more about the wildlife they have in their territory through camera traps.
A few days back, we also received great news for our project about the ornate titi monkey’s distribution. We received funds from Little Chalcraft Fund, manage by Rewild, to make specific surveys on the north, east and south part of ornate titi monkey distribution limits next year. So stay tuned in the following months for news on these trips and more ornate titi monkey (Plecturocebus ornatus) news.
We are also in conversations with two organizations at national and international level to increase our impact on primate conservation. More news on these collaborations in the following months. We are also reconnecting with El Caduceo reserve in San Martin to monitor primates there
Finally, this year had leave us with multiple learnings about the impact we can and must have on primates and their habitats as well as multiple new friendships, renewed collaborations and friendships and more plans for future years.
If you want to support our activities, please visit https://fineartamerica.com/art/xyomara+carretero or get in contact with as at xcarretero@gmail.com if you want to collaborate, donate or volunteer in our activities. You can also support our activities by buying our dusky titi monkeys stuff dolls https://www.instagram.com/p/Ctm_sEORvk8/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
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Month: December 2023
Monkey Forest Tales: Zocay Project balance of 2023- Part 2: collaborations and projects
In today’s post we are going to talk about the second part of our year’s balance for this ending year 2023. This second part is about collaborations and project. This was a year full of both of them.
As mentioned in our last post we collaborate with Onca foundation in our camera trap project. This project is already finished but we will be writing a paper with the main results of this project in following months. If you want to know some of the exciting recommendations result from this project visit our post about it here.
However, this wasn’t our only collaboration this year, additionally we collaborate with SUSA group from Universidad de Los Llanos, especially with Dr. Martha Ortiz with who we are developing a landscape scale project about the effects of landscape variable on Brucmback night monkeys (Aotus brumbacki) presence in fragmented landscapes, hopefully at the beginning of next year we will give you some news on the results of this exciting project. In this project we also continue collaborating with Cumaral Biodiversa and Finca El Silencio in Cumaral town where groups of this species usually are found close to the urban area.
This year we also support an incredible and dedicated student from Nuevo Gimnasio School in Villavicencio who study Colombian squirrel monkeys behaviour who is feed by tourist and local people. If you want to know more about his experience, read here.
We also launched a citizen science project to complement the data we had been collected for a couple of years now about dusky titi monkeys (Plecturocebus ornatus), an endemic species of Colombia, which distribution area is mostly in fragmented areas. We area also waiting for some funding to clarify some of its distribution limits, so hopefully we will have some exciting news about this project in the following months. For now, we want to thank all private reserves and organizations that already send us its data to make this project possible. If you want to collaborate, share your data with us or volunteer with us in this project please see our post about this exciting project here.
We also continue collecting data about primate populations living in fragmented areas of San Martin and Villanueva towns, and Villavicencio city where we continue doing group’s counting and, in some areas of San Martin town, we continue monitoring groups that had been observed now for almost two decades in terms of demographic and ecological data. This data is focus on the monkey species present in each zone. We are grateful with all landowners that allowed us to make samplings in their lands for almost two decades.
If you want to support our activities, please visit https://fineartamerica.com/art/xyomara+carretero or get in contact with as at xcarretero@gmail.com if you want to collaborate, donate or volunteer in our activities. You can also support our activities by buying our dusky titi monkeys stuff dolls https://www.instagram.com/p/Ctm_sEORvk8/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
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