Sadly, today’s batch of links includes news of the deaths of two critically endangered Hawksbills, both of whom were tagged by ICAPO earlier this summer. This video from Media Center ElSalvador.com (in Spanish) features interviews with ICAPO staff, as well as mangrove …
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On July 14th the International Surfing Association World Masters Surfing Championship opened on Playa Colorado, Nicaragua, bringing the world’s best surfers, surfing fans, and international media to the region where we work. Surfwire described Playa Colorado as “a place where …
Welcome to Playa Colorado!
This is our home all week for the International Surf Association’s World Masters Surfing Championship. Here, in part, thanks to the SIMA Environmental Fund, which supports our Surf Ambassadors program for ocean conservation, we’re helping with event logistics and making …
The Underwater Enviropreneur
For the winter/spring edition of PERC Reports, Reed Watson talked to scuba diver and reef restoration entrepreneur, Brett Howell. As the Walker Conservation Fellow at the Georgia Aquarium, Howell hopes to illustrate that Florida’s coral reefs, a hotbed of biodiversity, …
One Turtle Saved
Fifteen years ago the hawksbill sea turtle in my hands would have been hog-tied, whisked hundreds of miles, slaughtered and carved into trinkets. Now, it swims free. On Baja’s Pacific coast, an adult male hawksbill sea turtle found its way …
Burt Talks to the Bees
Via the Sustainable Brands newsletter: Burt’s Bees is collaborating with artists and experts at the Pollinator Partnership to generate greater public awareness about the importance of honeybees to agriculture and the threats they face. For such small, short-lived creatures, bees …
Help Fight Fire with Fire
We echo the Nature Conservancy in saying that our hearts go out to those affected by the wildfires burning up the American West. Just as we asked for your help raising money to plant trees in the wake of the …
Jaguar & Her Cub Spotted on Colombian Plantation
From NatGeo DailyNews: Jaguars currently live in isolated populations scattered across North and South America, which is part of the reason the species is listed as “near threatened” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. … Usually, just one …
Rio +20
Our friends at the International Institute of Tropical Forestry present a peek inside the Rio +20 Earth Summit, from a unique perspective, that of one of their students: “In 1992 I was one year old, I was learning to be …
Panthera’s Camera Traps Capture Jaguars On Colombian Oil Plantations
From Red Orbit: The first ever photographs of jaguars within an oil plantation in Colombia have just been released… Panthera, the world’s leading wild cat conservation organization, focuses solely on the study and conservation of wild cats. The camera traps …