by keeping forests connected through strategically placed rope bridges. This project stems from the deforestation and building on previous forest space which can reduce a sloth's connections to food and shelter. The Tracking program is the first sloth institute program, from 2015, and focuses on watching the recently released sloths to ensure their survival and health. In addition to tracking their rehabilitated and released sloths they also put tracking collars on wild sloths. This allows the program to determine if rehabilitated sloths are behaving like normal sloths would. The data from the Tracking program allows the Institute to place these sloth speedways in commonly traveled and potentially hazardous areas for the sloths. History The Sloth Institute Costa Rica was founded in 2014 by co-founders Seda Sejud and Sam Trull who is also known as "the Mother of Sloths". It is also believed that the Sloth Institute delivered the world's first birth of a sloth by Caesarean section. References Non-profit organizations based in Costa Rica Wildlife rehabilitation and conservation centers Nature conservation in Costa Rica