What is the Mono Titi, you say? It is a Squirrel Monkey, the smallest of the New World Monkeys. I was hoping to see one while in Costa Rica, it did not happen. Now I have to look at the website of the Eco Preservation Society. They are fighting the good fight by making a documentary about this Squirrel Monkey which may be the worlds, cutest creature. Their are 1700 Squirrels left. Two populations occur. One population is in accessable, but beautiful, Antonio Manuel National Park. One population is in Corcavado National Park, in an isolated part of Costa Rica, but like most of the country, very beautiful. The Eco Preservation Society needs your help as they sponsor what may prove to be the final word on this monkey…please help them. They have a great web and the documentary on the Mono Titti is worth getting involved with them. When I first read about their site I thought they were just another Eco-Travel Group, which is the way to travel , but in my mind some of the eco-Travelers are getting way to slick and take this from a man who has Eco-Travelled as long as Eco-Travel was a label. These are our friends on things like Global Warming, these folks certainly have everything on th line. Back to the Eco Preservation Society, their information about Global Warming is really good and one of their sponsors is a reforestation for profit company. Now being a US American I had a problem combining reforestation and profit in one word. I thought about the US New Deal. That may not work in Costa Rica, a country way ahead of most in protecting wild areas, but like Manuel Antonio National Park Costa Ricans seem to love their parks also and some of their parks are getting loved to death.
Read Our Planet, a magazine of the United Nations Programme for the Environment. I did read it and I am glad I did. Roberto Dobles, the Costa Rican minister of Environment and Energy, has a good article entititled: Forests, the Future. For someone like me with a lot of “old school” forestry background it is worth a read, the entire magazine, and that article is worth a read. I have only seen that issue, but it is good.
Mono Titi, Squirrel Monkeys, documentary, Eco Preservation Society, Roberto Nobles, the United Nations Environment Programme’s Magazine, a lot to read, but worth it. You will see very much where the earth is going. If you want to see some of the most beautiful beaches and learn about some of the cutest biological diversity in the world check this out.
Next up is an article by ? Gross on what she think’s is happening in one predator poulation in the world. I of course think of it as a predator dynamic and it is in the forfront again for many Enviros because of predator management fiascos that periodically happen. It was brought to my attention by George Wuerthne, long old friend, and author of 34 books, an Ecologist for the Center For Biological Diversity. Gross’s article is on Cougars in the Selkirk Range of Northeastern Washington, a range that I have seen and tramped in on both sides of the US-Canada border. The Gross and Wuerthner point of view on predators is much the way I think of things.
I will publish that article by Gross and George’s viewpoint on predators. I have been down for two days because I had a glitch on my computer which my wife fixed the glitch which was not a security breach at all. I have a lot of energy to burn on this computer today.
Matt
