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Monkey Forest Tales: Planning Zocay Project activities for 2024

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Happy New Year to everyone!! In our first post of 2024, we want to let you know some of our plans for this new year. Zocay Project 20th birthday is this year, and we are very excited and grateful with all farmers and people who had helps us over the past two decades to make this project a success. So, we are planning a few surprises for all of you very soon!!!
We are also excited to announce that this year we continue with our project to improve our knowledge of Ornate titi monkey (Plecturocebus ornatus) distribution limits. We are grateful with our donors from Chalcraft Fund Primate Grant manage through Rewild. We are also grateful with all people from private reserves that had reach out to us reporting their observation of this beautiful species on their land. In the following months we will keep you updated with all new areas visited and all advances in this new project.
This year we also continue with our monitoring of primate populations in fragments of San Martín area as well as some areas in Villavicencio, Cumaral and Villanueva, with some of our first trips starting next week. We area starting Colombian squirrel monkey babies’ season again and babies of some other species had been reported recently too. In collaboration with Cumaral Biodiversa we will continue supporting their effort to monitor Brumback night monkeys (Aotus brumbacki) nest in their territory.
Hopefully this year will be also successful on new publications about our results that we expect will improve not only our knowledge of primate populations living in forest fragments but also some recommendations and conservation actions to better improve those populations. We also plan to participate the Latin American Congress of Primatology that this year will be in Colombia. Also, we hope to continue collaborating with Nature Trips to train local guides for primate watching in Vista Hermosa area.
If you want to support our activities, please visit https://fineartamerica.com/art/xyomara+carretero or get in contact with us 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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Monkey Forest Tales: Balance of Zocay Project activities in 2023 – Part 2: projects and collaborations (continuation)

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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==
© Copyright Disclaimer. All pictures used on this web page are protected with copyrights to Xyomara Carretero-Pinzón. If you want to use any of these pictures, please leave a message on the website.