Wildlife & People Suriname, Paramaribo Videos
Videos by Wildlife & People Suriname in Paramaribo. WPS aims to protect wildlife to reach beneficial coexistence with local communities
We are very happy to announce the Reconnecta Suriname project with the support of Future for Nature!
In this first phase of the project, we will systematically record, for the first time, the direct deaths of terrestrial vertebrates due to vehicle collisions on the three highways in Suriname.
We have an incredible team and, together, we want to reduce this impact that takes so many animal lives!
The data will be part of the mitigation plan for these highways and we hope to have a second phase of the Project to install mitigation measures!
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We are very happy to announce the Reconnecta Suriname project with the support of Future for Nature! In this first phase of the project, we will systematically record, for the first time, the direct deaths of terrestrial vertebrates due to vehicle collisions on the three highways in Suriname. We have an incredible team and, together, we want to reduce this impact that takes so many animal lives! The data will be part of the mitigation plan for these highways and we hope to have a second phase of the Project to install mitigation measures!
We are in our second month of data collection for the Reconecta Project Suriname, where our team is collecting data on road killed wildlife on the three main paved roads. Yesterday and today Chafihd and Ashwin were joined by 2 "new" rangers of LBB / NATUURBEHEER Fabricio Alequin and Guillermo Alupa on the Nickerie road survey. On the video you see the team doing the 8 km monitoring by foot that is part of every survey day to include small animals that you miss when driving. In only 2 months of data collection (meaning 2 surveys completed per road) we already have observed over 400 road killed animals. This is very high, we expect to see even more victims in the rainy season.
Happy World Otter Day! One of WPS's priority species is the Giant river otter. This species lives in family groups and are very territorial. This video with a clash between 2 family groups was taken by Krisna at the Boven Coesewijne river, where this species can be found often. Incredible video and make sure to turn on the sound!