ARBOREAL BRIDGE PROJECT

 

The Arboreal Bridge Project was developed by Osa Conservation and aims to reconnect the canopy of the lowland rainforests of the Osa Peninsula (CR) through suspension bridges made with different materials and shapes, thus allowing arboreal mammals to cross the roads, avoiding being victims of road traffic. Although the target species of this project are many, the designs were tailor-made for the primates present in the peninsula with particular attention to Geoffroy's spider monkeys ( Ateles geoffroyi ), a species whose diet ranges over more than 100 different fruit plants only in Osa and whose seeds are dispersed by them over distances, patterns, and frequencies very different from those of howlers, capuchins, and squirrel monkeys. This characteristic makes Geoffroy's spider monkey a species of great ecological value and of great conservation interest, hence the desire to make it the protagonist of this photographic project.

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