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Donate to the Lomas Barbudal Monkey
Project 
Since 1990, the Lomas Barbudal Monkey Project has
documented the lives of over 300 wild white-faced capuchin monkeys in a
Costa Rican tropical forest.
Because capuchins grow up slowly and can live for several decades,
documenting and explaining these traits requires multi-year behavioral
observation of individually known monkeys, supplemented by genetic and
other biological data. Ninety-five
field assistants, graduate students and post-doctoral scholars have
worked at Lomas Barbudal, making it one of the world’s premier
primatology methods training facilities. The project’s findings
through 2006 are described in the recently published popular science
book, Manipulative Monkeys: the
Capuchins of Lomas Barbudal (2008: Harvard University Press).
Maintaining continuous funding via short-term grants is a
never-ending challenge. We invite
your help to maintain and expand this ongoing study of a species that has
much to tell us about our own origins. We also sometimes need financial
assistance to help conserve the forest in which the monkeys live, and to
conduct environmental education programs in the local schools and
community centers. Less than 2% of the original tropical dry forest
remains in the world, and less than 0.1% of Costa Rica’s dry forest
has been preserved, making it far more endangered than rainforest.
Environmental education is the only way to ensure that enough people attain
the knowledge and pro-environmental attitudes to preserve this habitat
type over the long term.
To make a donation, click here to
access the UCLA Anthropology donations page. Near the bottom of the
donations page is a choice of which fund to donate to. Select “Lomas
Barbudal Monkey Fund” in the Gift Information section. Donors who
provide us with their addresses will receive an annual newsletter about
the project’s current research projects and the latest news about
the monkeys. If you wish to receive this, write to Susan
Perry at the UCLA Anthropology Department (341 Haines
Hall, Box 951553, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles CA 90095-1553) to let
her know that you have made a donation and to provide her with your
address.
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