Two New Lives in Valle Verde

This afternoon, in the sector of Valle Verde, Angélica Cecilia Mármol Venegas found what sometimes arrives without warning: two newborn kids lying on the damp earth of the corral, one female and one male, their brown coats still flecked with white, as though someone had splashed milk across their backs. They rested quietly, with the stillness that belongs to those who have only just arrived in the world and haven't quite figured out where they've landed. Higher up, across the open meadows that roll toward the hills, the rest of the herd was going about its usual afternoon: cows of every color grazing beneath the warm light of late day, and a large group drinking from the natural watering hole, ringed by tropical vegetation and open blue sky. An unhurried scene, as befits this place. At Fundación Loros, the birth of these two kids in Valle Verde is one of those moments the field team records with care — quality pasture, clean water, secure fencing — so that whatever comes into the world here has, from its very first day, everything it needs.