From this weekend’s Science Roundup: One of the major uncertainties about global climate change is the effect of clouds, which cool the climate by reflecting incoming solar radiation back to space, but also warm the climate by trapping heat that …
Species of the Day: Wrinkle-faced Bat
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species of the Day is the Wrinkle-faced bat. The Wrinkle-faced Bat, Centurio senex, is listed as ‘Least Concern’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM. This striking-looking bat inhabits moist and dry tropical forests of …
Happy New Year!
From the tropical forests of Nicaragua, Happy New Year! This ocelot cat (Leopardus pardalis) was photographed just this month in a forest we are working to protect. Paso Pacifico scientific intern Robert Euwe caught this image in a motion-detecting “camera trap”. …
From the Wildlife Conservation Society, Nicaragua:
From the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Nicaragua Sea TurtleConservation Program we are pleased to announce the new WCS-NicaraguaYouth Group blog. This blog has been created by a group of youngadults from Pearl Lagoon, located on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua,as …
CAVU, helping people save critical ecosystems in Latin America
From this month’s CAVU newsletter: The first of CAVU’s three films released this year was created in collaboration with NGO Paso Pacífico. “Paso del Istmo” is a narrow ribbon of land between the vast Lake Nicaragua and the Pacific Ocean …
Species of the Day: Green Turtle
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species of the Day is the Green Turtle. The Green Turtle, Chelonia mydas, is listed as ‘Endangered’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM. This long-lived and highly migratory species is found in …
Central American Surf Championship
(Liza Gonzalez Director of Paso Pacifico in Nicaragua meeting with the Nicaraguan National Surf Team) This year’s Central American Surf Championship took place on November 19, 20, and 21 at Madera San Juan del Sur Beach in Nicaragua. Paso Pacifico …
Cooperative Forest Management
From this month’s Science Roundup: Sustainably managing common natural resources, such as fisheries, water, and forests, is essential for our long-term survival. Conventional analysis assumes that groups struggle to manage common natural resources because of free-riders and people who will maximize short-term …
Trees Fight Pollution
ScienceNow has good news for those of us planting trees: “Research shows that deciduous tree leaves, such as those from the maple, aspen, and poplar, suck up far more atmospheric pollutants than previously thought.”
Getting Connected in Nicaragua
My first time to Nicaragua, I spent a week in an old pick-up truck we parked on a hill each night so we could jumpstart it each morning. We traveled the Paso del Istmo biologicial corridor from one “unconnected” place …