New Article on Yellow Fever Vaccines for GLTs

We’re excited to share an article published by BBC this week highlighting our work vaccinating wild GLTs against yellow fever. The article highlights the global importance of a vaccination program and the relation of human disease outbreaks with destruction of biodiversity, especially as humans encroach closer and closer on wild spaces.

Despite the COVID-19 Pandemic, AMLD is progressing in implementing its plan to vaccinate 500 GLTs for yellow fever to help restore the population of this endangered species from losses to the disease. We’ve vaccinated over 100 GLTs to date. This will contribute to protecting humans in the region from yellow fever as well. AMLD continues to restore connections of the remaining fragments of forest habitat and to reduce conversion of rural areas to urban. This will not only save GLTs from extinction but also restore ecological balance and help prevent the occurrence of future outbreaks of diseases affecting wildlife and humans in the area. 

Your donations to SGLT have helped AMLD maintain its field team on the ground as they monitor and vaccinate GLTs. AMLD has also been able to continue its partnerships to test the safety and effectiveness of the yellow fever vaccine on GLTs, obtain permits to vaccinate the wild population, secure a supply of the safe and effective vaccine. Donations also support staff to capture and vaccinate enough GLTs to maintain immunity (natural or vaccinated) among enough of the population GLTs. 

Consider donating now and continuing to help save GLTs, support biodiversity, and protect against human disease outbreaks! Your donations will go directly towards:

·         vaccinating more GLTs against yellow fever;

·         restoration of corridors connecting their forest habitat fragments;

·         and community education and training to promote forest restoration and protection, as well as monitoring for future threats.

COVID and GLTs

Our team in Brazil and all humans in the region are vaccinated for yellow fever, and we are simultaneously taking precautions against the coronavirus. We don’t know if GLTs can contract COVID, but we are doing all we can to protect the GLTs and our team – PPE, social distancing, masks - until COVID vaccinations are available for our staff and partners in Brazil.