The first warning reached the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission before a single sloth had arrived in Orlando.
An FWC employee found no active permits associated with Agresta, Sloth World or the Orlando address where the attraction was being developed.
“So just wanted to pass along to you,” the employee wrote in an internal email the same day to an agency investigator, who went out to take a look—eight months later, after at least 31 of the sloths had died…