Thank you to everyone who has voted for our ELLAS program in the NatGeo Ashoka Changemakers Geotourism Challenge. We appreciate all the support! El Nuevo Diario yesterday: La iniciativa “ELLAS” que promueve el Organismo No Gubernamental Paso Pacífico, el cual …
Mujeres de Rivas entre finalistas con proyecto de “geoturismo”
Hoy en La Prensa: El trabajo de un grupo de mujeres nicaragüenses por el desarrollo sostenible podría ser considerado el mejor del mundo, pero para eso necesita votos suficientes que lo certifiquen como ganador. Ese grupo participa de un concurso …
Wildlife without Borders
From our January newsletter: The endangered Black-handed Spider Monkey is locally extinct across most of western Nicaragua. Through a grant provided by the US Fish and Wildlife Service International Affairs’ Wildlife without Borders program, we have begun a monitoring program to document primate …
Protectors, Not Poachers
From our friend Greg Reitman at The Environmentalist: One of the world’s greatest treasures, sea turtles, is threatened by extinction. With the continued rise of poverty and lack of food resources, egg poaching has become a mainstream commodity and a …
Bats Lesson Three: Vampire Bats
From Kim Williams-Guillén, our director of conservation science: There are other smaller caves in Masaya. Park rangers know where they are. I have been to only one, which was a cave with a large colony of vampire bats. In the …
Bats Lesson Two: Nectar Bats
From Kim Williams-Guillén, our director of conservation science: This is a video I filmed of nectar bats feeding on a jicaro tree in Montibelli private reserve, which is about 30 minutes from Masaya. This video was filmed in April 2009. …
Bats Lesson One: Volcano Masaya
From Kim Williams-Guillén, our director of conservation science: There are two main lava tube caves, and several smaller caves. The largest cave has a colony of what I believe may be thousands of bats, but we have not done any …
Vote ELLAS
We are finalists in NatGeo’s Geotourism Challenge on Ashoka’s Changemakers website. If we win this challenge, we will receive funding for our watershed and coastal restoration work from the National Geographic foundation, the Multilateral Investment Fund, and the Inter-American Development Bank. …
Surfers Clean Up Their Ocean Playground
In December, we worked with our surf ambassadors to organize an environmental education workshop and coastal clean-up. We’re really proud that Nicaragua’s growing surf community has embraced a culture of conservation. This project is made possible through funding from the …
Photos from the Field: Leatherback Nesting
Last night our turtle rangers spotted a Leatherback sea turtle nesting on Playa Brasilon. They watched over her while she deposited 78 eggs in a nest which they will guard. Because the Pacific Leatherback is very close to extinction, we …