Picking up Rick Smith’s recent piece at National Parks Traveler, EcoLocalizer has posted about our turtle rangers and community-based conservation programs:
Paso Pacífico, a non-profit organization focusing on the Pacific slope of Central America, is helping endangered Hawksbill Turtles in Nicaragua with a compensation-based conservation program based on incentive payments for local people. The financial rewards to locals in exchange for protecting endangered sea turtle nests are making a difference: Rangers have reported that egg poaching is on the decline. And Paso Pacífico plans are to make this program sustainable.
You can see the EcoLocalizer piece here.
