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The 'Sloth Lady' Of Suriname, And Other Best Photography Of The Week · Feb 22, 2021 @11:17 AM ​​Every week, we curate the best new photography and photojournalism on the web, so you can spend your weekend kicking back and enjoying some beautiful pictures. Here are this week's picks: CNN hero Monique Pool is always looking up, and not in a figuratively optimistic way — she literally is constantly looking upwards.  Driving with her is a stressful ordeal as she alternates her gaze between the road in front of her and up into the trees looking for sloths.  She is [a] local celebrity in ...

This Woman in Suriname Has Rescued More than 1,000 Sloths By Ellyn Kail on February 15, 2021 Monique Pool weighs and photographs a rescue sloth named Ostrich at her rehabilitation center in Saramacca, Suriname. Ostrich received her name because as a baby she was found hanging out near the ostriches at the zoo in Paramaribo separated from her mother. Pool’s efforts in conservation and sloth rescue are a combination of being self-taught and reaching out for help to sloth specialists in Brazil and Costa Rica. Before he traveled to Suriname, the photojournalist Justin Mott had never seen a slo...

Sloths, it's what about that they stand for. it's about losing habitat. it's about importance of environmental protection, for everybody. >> learn more about monique and all of our cnn heroes at cnnheroes.com. and you can vote for your favorite one once a day, every day. all right. back now to the story we were discussing moments ago. this big trial, sort of goodfellas on trial. prosecutors say vincent asaro is a former mob boss who was involved in the lufthansa heist back in 1978. let's bring in our legal guys. avery friedman is civil rights attorney and law professor in cleveland. good to ...

Headed towards texas and washing out roads. we will get people the latest on the train derailment. christie? >> seven churches set on fire in st. louis. here is the big question? who is behind this? we are talking to one pastor that wants more help finding those responsible for setting fire to his church specifically. >> first, cnn has announced the top ten heroes for 2015. we would like you to meet another one of them. her name is monique pool. she helps save our environment by saving sloths. listen. saving a sloth for me is not just about saving the sloths. it is about what they stand for....

Each year cnn heroes tell extraordinary stories working every day to find solutions to problems around the globe. we received thousands of nominations and today we revealed our top ten cnn heroes of 2015. each are contenders for a $10,000 top prize. he's fighting the water crisis in his homeland. his non-profit created a rain water harvesting system that now provides water to six villages. more than 10,000 people in india's driest region. >> anybody home? >> from pittsburgh, pennsylvania, dr. jim widthers. for more than 20 years, he's taken medicine to the streets giving free quality health ca...