Slothville

In 2010 I traveled 5000 miles to a sleepy corner of Costa Rica to meet an animal I first saw on Youtube. Taz, a miniature hairy Yoda with Jedi strength comic powers and a persistently itchy bum, was one of two hundred residents at the Aviarios sloth sanctuary.

I made my own little video about the sanctuary’s superstar sloths, “Meet the Sloths” which went viral within days. It was picked up by newspapers across the world from the Huffington Post to the Guardian. The video has now been watched by over 6 million people and gathered famous fans like Ashton Kutcher, Ricky Gervaise and most recently Kristen Bell. According to the Washington Post sloths are now the new kittens.

I’ve now made a full length documentary about the sanctuary for Animal Planet. In the US it is called ‘Too Cute! Baby Sloths’ and next airs on February 25 2012. In the UK it is called ‘Meet the Sloths’ and will premier on March 4th 2012.

The film will also screen in France on France 5 and around the world on various networks in 2012. Stay tuned to slothville.com or follow slothville on Facebook and Twitter for information on these screenings.

A book of my photos and stories about the sloths, ‘A Little Book of Sloth’ will be published by Simon and Schuster later this year.

The Aviarios sloth sanctuary in Costa Rica relies on donations to continue rescuing and rehabilitating injured and orphaned sloths. If you like the work I do and love the sloths then please click here to make a donation. And please remember that as cute as they are, sloths belong in the wild and should never be kept as pets.

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Email Lucy at slothtv@gmail.com