letter from COSTA RICA :three toed sloths

In the jungles of Costa Rica many creatures stand out, but sloths don't seem to take the attention of people, but they are curious creatures.Their closest relatives are anteaters and pangolings. Sloths do not eat insects but are in fact a place to raise them.Sloths have tiny larvae in their hair feeding on the plants on top of it that grow on it (making it the only green mammal).Then the larvae turn into moth like creatures that lay their eggs in the sloths poop until they hatch. I hope to see one soon, while I wait, see you later!

THE REASON WHY WE SHOULD PUT A PRIZE ON A FOREST

Nature is our most valuable resource, but it shouldn't be for free.We all need water to live, but we don't need oil to sustain ourselves.Think about this, oil companies dig and destroy zones of forest for big oil reserves...That will feed our population for eight days and eight days only.

New conservation efforts put a prize on every tree and creature on the rain forest by the carbon absorbed by the individual or other ecological favours and jobs of other species to create a natural capital.This means that the forest is officially not for free.

THE DEEP

We live greatly in our low pressure non reactive air rich surface, but life doesn't evolve well in non reactive surroundings, it need minerals and high temperatures to rearrange the molecules properly.
Today many animals live there,feeding,hunting,glowing,swimming,crawling...
Yeti crabs roam the edges of the trench for bacteria, tube worms feed on the particles that come from above.
Squid roam the open deep sea.
But we never got there, maybe we should take some of their tricks.Use water as a structural support to support water pressure, be jelly like instead of robust.
That we can't get there at first doesn't mean it isn't worth the time to get there, we must try harder to go toward.We went to the deep blue above us but we forgot what was under our feet, what our world holds, we went up because we were afraid of what was under the surface, we must remember that our ancestors went to the cave to protect themselves from the snow, then we found our way to the outside, to never hold back.

NATURAL? DON'T THINK SO...

There has been a lot of talk about GMOs and mass production lately.
Actually if genetic change by humans is a serious subject we should also consider that over many generations our crops and farm animals have been selected by us humans for more nutrients or less diseases.
Today the new technology of CRISP lets you modify a gene in a much shorter amount of time.
But it has some problems like gene exchange between wild and tamed salmon in salmon farms.
People think that GMOs will make you sick, but that isn't necessarily true.Organic tomatoes for instance have been genetically modified to have more nutrients.We still have a little love of nature, that may be why its more probable that you buy something with the word "natural" or "organic" in it.

POOP SAVOUR

Poop is disgusting,Or isn't it? In the natural world poop is a precious material for plants and bacteria.Flies and beetles need poop to feed and lay their eggs.Poop is rich in nitrogen and ammonia that are the main food of plants and some bacteria.Herbivores need tough digestive systems, but even then some herbivore digestion isn't very effective, such as elephant digestion, that's why there is a lot of undigested fivers in their poop, which can be nutritious food for fiver loving microbes.
Other animals like bears eat berries and poop their seeds along with his poop that will help them grow.
Fruit bats in south america contribute in 50% of the amazon's rain forest whole pollination system.

Maybe we are the weird ones that clean our poop before someone else can use it, is rubbish for us,but isn't for anyone else.

THE TOUGHEST PLACE ON THE SEA

We may think that the toughest place would be one with enough pressure to crush your bones or somewhere without a bite or somewhere where is too hot to survive without vaporising.
But for many creatures the toughest place is one without a secure medium that rushes with the waves and crushes with the coastline rocks.Is the inter-tidal zone, a place where the sea level rises and drops in a regular basis and where little oxygen is to be found.The few fishes that live here do partially breathe air from the surface.Many of the creatures from deeper waters wouldn't survive the waves and the loss of oxygen and would parish.Invertebrates here move slowly and have tough armour to be protected from the waves.They take the advantage of mineral exchange from deeper water to obtain nutrients.In low tide creatures are trapped in rock polls that work as a temporal ecosystem separated from the sea.

EXPLORING EARTH TO REACH THE FURTHEST REGIONS OF SPACE

When the mission Galileo detected an icy surface on the moon Europa it revealed a theoretical sea that had more mass that all of earth's liquid water combined.That alarmed scientists with the possibility of life in Europa.It had liquid water, high temperatures and minerals, all needed for life.

Of course something as a trip to mars or the moon will take around 10 to 20 years to get out of the ground.So to make time NASA is funding expeditions to the most similar place on earth that resembles Europa,the Gakkel trench in the arctic ocean.Where sunlight never reaches.There they found new species of sponges and lots of microbes.

But still, if there is life out there, we will never be really prepared for what's coming...