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| 09.06.07 2007 HOWLER FESTIVAL FUNDED AND SPONSORED BY WPF
The Festival a fun series of events including the Red howler monkey day with schools, culminating in a big celebration – a festival that all the local community and children of la Pintada get involved to raise awareness and celebrate their environment, why should protect what is around them. Ecolombia has been working with schools since March getting ready for the festival, workshops with teachers, students adults and other people of the area.
The objective for this festival is to promote the rehabilitation center and its animals like a part of the municipality and integrate whole community between them, with their environment and culture. In this celebration the WPF have sponsored t-shirts (see above pic), candies and presents. Art materials - pens, paper, pencils, crayons etc. The Festival will be this weekend on Saturday.
23.05.07 Ecolombia Foundation in 2007 (January – March)
The foundation have continues with a big work. During the months of January – March we have received 12 monkeys: 2 younger monkeys and 10 baby monkeys. Babies are in Medellin under medical supervision and special cares because they are very little and very susceptible to diseases.
Nowadays in Ecolombia there are 31 monkeys: 10 babies, a group of 9 youthful monkeys, other group of 6 youthful monkeys and other group of 6 adults that is ready for liberation.
Adriana
arrived in June of 2007.
She is a daughter of Fidelia (a free monkey of La Pintada).
Adriana and Fidelia were attacked for a male monkey because the male
monkeys kill the babies of a group for the females monkeys have a new babies of
them.
Adriana and Fidelia received medical attention in La Pintada, but the
male monkey come back and he attacked them once more.
Adriana was bad, she have tow big hurts, one on her back and other on her
arm, then we decided that the best to she was carry on to Medellín where there
are more specialists and possibilities for her.
We
hope that on the next month we can to liberate the group of 6 adult monkeys.
This group don’t will be liberate in the rehabilitation center because
in the forest there are many monkeys now, but we find a natural reserve where
there aren’t danger for them and we with the help of Corantioquia does a study
about the natural populations that live there and we found that is possible and
viable do liberation there. The
reproduction program in captivity of the Crax alberti (paujil) continue without
a positive result yet, we are waiting for eggs on May that is the time to
reproduction. Nowadays there are 8
paujiles. The
reproduction program in captivity of Ara ambigua (guacamayas), is better.
Two weeks before we found 3 eggs and we think that on one week more we
will get a babies. For this moment there are 8 guacamayas.
We
are working on these programs with a research Ornithology Team of University of
Antioquia and other researchers of this university. There more we have agreements with the University of
Antioquia and National University to work together and the students can do their
thesis and practices in the foundation. There
more, the rehabilitation center is use like a temporal house for many animals
that received food, care and veterinary attention while they are relocation in
other place for the environmental authorities. In this moment we have 3 parrots,
2 owls and 1 mantled howler.
The productive alternatives are good.
Nowadays we have 20 women in La Pintada and on February we started with a
new group of women in Medellin. All
women are single mothers’ head of family.
With the women of La Pintada we are working the plush monkeys and the new
group is on capacitating with a woman of La Pintada who is teaching to them how
to make plushes. In
this moment we have only 50 plush monkeys of different references, 50 slippers
small of capuchino and 60 scarves small of saimiri and red howler.
We don’t have more existents because we sell all plushes that we had to
One World Project and a new customer in Canada. The
production of handmade necklaces is stop because we need a new permission for
production and exportation because these necklaces have natural seeds and is
necessary have a crop to produce this seeds. The production of soaps continued stop because the new chemical engineer don’t found the original formula and he is doing test for looking for it. 23.04.07 Ecolombia in 2006 - Annual Report The
foundation has continued with the operation of the Farallones Rehabilitation
center for Fauna in the municipality of La Pintada. There, the rehabilitation
and reintroduction activities of the red howler monkey Allouata seniculus,
continues with success. During 2006
the foundation received 44 originating monkeys from several cities of Colombia
like Pereira, Bucaramanga, Cali and other places of Antioquia.
19 of them died as consequence of ills and undernourishment, several of
them were baby monkeys because the people that have monkeys in their house
don’t know how these animals care.
On
February a group of 6 howler monkeys was liberated, to which we made an
ethological monitoring with the purpose of evaluate the success of this
liberation and propose improvement measures for future liberations.
This reintroduction was very successful, these 6 monkeys are in the high
part of Rehabilitation center and on February of this year a new monkey was
born. The
reproduction program in captivity of the Crax alberti and the Ara ambigua,
continue without a positive result yet, although we improved the habitats with
more environmental enriched and varied their diets with nourishment complements
and some natural seeds. The productive alternatives were reactivated with the plush monkeys’ production and handmade necklaces. It was still pending the restart of the soaps production, which was hoped, was reestablished for the month of July, nevertheless don’t have be possible to begin the production of soaps because the chemical engineer resigned on October of 2006 and we has start again with other person. 17.08.06 Rescued Howler Monkey Released to the Wild - has baby Colombia and South Lakes Wild Animal Park are celebrating news just in that one of those rescued Red Howler Monkeys, which underwent successful rehabilitation and was released back to the forest has just been photographed with a baby of her own. This is fantastic news - these monkeys who have gone through terrible, horrific starts in life can, with the right care and effort, have successful futures as wild monkeys.
“This baby is a light of hope that reinforces our commitment with our conservation cause” -Jorge Villa, Colombia A big thank you has to go out to people from all over the World who have adopted and supported these rescued howler monkeys, the money from which goes directly to fund their rehabilitation and release back into the wild tropical forest in Colombia. |
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