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Monkeys Finally Get Help From the Right Group of People
With frustration at being only two people fighting to help all the monkeys of Guanacaste, Simona Daniele, owner of Hotel Luna Llena, and Patricia Sterman, owner of Azul Profundo, organized a meeting of important people who would be able to give them the aid they need to continue to Save The Monkeys.
Joining the ladies for the summit at the Barcelo Hotel were University of Costa Rica Genetics Professor Gustavo Gutierrez and UCR Biology Professor Ronald Sanchez Perras, who had already completed a large investigation on all the monkeys in Costa Rica. This investigation included not only why they are dying, but their genetic problems such as why monkeys have dengue and other diseases monkeys should never get.
“They can tell the health of the monkeys by their teeth and, here in Guanacaste, the monkeys have almost no teeth,” according to Sterman.
The main issue of the meeting was to start a group project along with attendees Pilar Campos of Coopeguanacaste, who is in charge of everything the electric company does with the environment, the MINAE’s Area Protecion Vida Silvestre Nicoya, Orlando Matarrita, and local veterinarian Gilbert Cavalliri. The group would facilitate the type of changes that Daniele and Sterman have been championing for years. The idea is that the more powerful organizations would be able to facilitate change for the monkeys where the ladies could not.
“Simona and me are too little,” Sterman said.
For example, about 20 of the much-discussed monkey bridges that Sterman and Daniele had been championing, which are to be used by the animals for traveling from place to place, avoiding electrocution from electrical wires, are currently waiting to be hung by Coopeguanacaste. Daniele said she has been frustrated by her repeated calls to Coopeguanacaste to get them to hang the bridges.
Now, with Campos in attendance at the meeting, she has promised to say by the next group meeting—January 21—when Coopeguanacaste will be putting up the bridges that will save the monkeys’ lives. (Also expected at that meeting are the Municipalidad of Santa Cruz, ICE, Aya, Banco Nacional, and others.)
In addition, the committee discussed three key points
1) Putting up Monkey Crossing signs
2) Coopeguanacaste taking lessons in environmental studies that would envelope the monkeys, as well as general interest efforts
3) The University and MINAE organizing environmental lessons for the Tamarindo community
After much study and concern, Sterman and Daniele have finally located a facility that will take injured monkeys for convalescence and recovery. The place is called Refugio Animales de Nosara (Nosara Animal Refuge) and Sibu Sanctuary, and their mission is to rescue injured, orphaned, and displaced wild animals and provide them immediate medical care, rehabilitation, and eventual release into the wild. Contact 2682-0059 or 2682-1010 or Brenda@reefrealty.com.
Also last month, Biologists Juan Carlos Ordoñez and Wiebke Lammers and their assistants returned to Tamarindo to continue their study of the monkeys. This part of the study involved the trees the monkeys need to live in and where they need to be planted. The biologists counted the trees from Langosta to the Fereterias and were able to ascertain where new trees acceptable to monkeys would need to go.
Joining the ladies for the summit at the Barcelo Hotel were University of Costa Rica Genetics Professor Gustavo Gutierrez and UCR Biology Professor Ronald Sanchez Perras, who had already completed a large investigation on all the monkeys in Costa Rica. This investigation included not only why they are dying, but their genetic problems such as why monkeys have dengue and other diseases monkeys should never get.
“They can tell the health of the monkeys by their teeth and, here in Guanacaste, the monkeys have almost no teeth,” according to Sterman.
The main issue of the meeting was to start a group project along with attendees Pilar Campos of Coopeguanacaste, who is in charge of everything the electric company does with the environment, the MINAE’s Area Protecion Vida Silvestre Nicoya, Orlando Matarrita, and local veterinarian Gilbert Cavalliri. The group would facilitate the type of changes that Daniele and Sterman have been championing for years. The idea is that the more powerful organizations would be able to facilitate change for the monkeys where the ladies could not.
“Simona and me are too little,” Sterman said.
For example, about 20 of the much-discussed monkey bridges that Sterman and Daniele had been championing, which are to be used by the animals for traveling from place to place, avoiding electrocution from electrical wires, are currently waiting to be hung by Coopeguanacaste. Daniele said she has been frustrated by her repeated calls to Coopeguanacaste to get them to hang the bridges.
Now, with Campos in attendance at the meeting, she has promised to say by the next group meeting—January 21—when Coopeguanacaste will be putting up the bridges that will save the monkeys’ lives. (Also expected at that meeting are the Municipalidad of Santa Cruz, ICE, Aya, Banco Nacional, and others.)
In addition, the committee discussed three key points
1) Putting up Monkey Crossing signs
2) Coopeguanacaste taking lessons in environmental studies that would envelope the monkeys, as well as general interest efforts
3) The University and MINAE organizing environmental lessons for the Tamarindo community
After much study and concern, Sterman and Daniele have finally located a facility that will take injured monkeys for convalescence and recovery. The place is called Refugio Animales de Nosara (Nosara Animal Refuge) and Sibu Sanctuary, and their mission is to rescue injured, orphaned, and displaced wild animals and provide them immediate medical care, rehabilitation, and eventual release into the wild. Contact 2682-0059 or 2682-1010 or Brenda@reefrealty.com.
Also last month, Biologists Juan Carlos Ordoñez and Wiebke Lammers and their assistants returned to Tamarindo to continue their study of the monkeys. This part of the study involved the trees the monkeys need to live in and where they need to be planted. The biologists counted the trees from Langosta to the Fereterias and were able to ascertain where new trees acceptable to monkeys would need to go.
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