Over at One World One Ocean’s blog, The Water Column, Sarah Bedolfe tells a story from Indonesia which will sound very familiar to Paso Pacífico’s friends and followers: For generations, the island residents of Runduma, Indonesia have been harvesting sea turtle …
Help Save Turtle Species!
Our partners at the Turtle Conservancy have been selected as a featured charity partner on CharitySub.org. They are raising money from their community of online donors in April to help support biodiversity. With over 800 species forced into extinction in …
Fire in Masaya
photo of the crater at Masaya (this is NOT smoke from the current fire) We’re watching the fire burn through the tropical dry forests near Volcano Masaya, where we work closely with park rangers to help visitors understand and appreciate …
Promoting Resiliency to Mitigate Climate Change
Working in Nicaragua’s Paso del Istmo for nearly a decade, we have seen firsthand the effects of climate change on the wildlife, landscape, and people of this incredibly biodiverse terrain spanning volcanoes, dry mountain forest, mangroves, and coral reefs. From deforestation and devastating …
Help Empower Citizen Scientists
Miguel Ordeñana, the big cat specialist who leads our Jaguar Conservation Initiative, is now at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, where he continues his great work expanding citizen science and local biodiversity programs. Among his projects is an …
Taller de Radiotelemetria
16-17 de abril 2013 Managua, Nicaragua La radiotelemetría es una herramienta poderosa para el estudio de la ecología espacial de una gran variedad de animales. En este taller, participantes revisarán la historia, teoría, y práctica de la radiotelemetría (16 de …
Safeguarding Valuable Ecosystems, Increasing Prosperity
From the Rainforest Alliance: As the world’s population grows and natural resources dwindle, the creation of parks and protected natural areas is not enough to solve the problem of forest destruction. The Rainforest Alliance believes that it is possible to …
Can Isolated Coral Reefs Heal Themselves?
Recent findings reported in Science suggest that coral reefs may be more independent and resilient than previously thought. This is good news for our reef rangers as they begin monitoring and conserving a couple miles of reef islands and the …
Créditos de Tortuga: Turtle Credits to Safeguard Natural Capital
The Multilateral Investment Fund issued a press release last week about our Environmental Leadership and Entrepreneurship for Geotourism project: The Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), a member of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, will support the Paso Pacifico Foundation in …
Geotourism Entrepreneurs Save Sea Turtles
Our March newsletter is online. We report on our new project supporting Environmental Leadership and Entrepreneurship for Geotourism. This project, supported by the Inter-American Development Bank, is a concerted effort to scale up our efforts to combine community-based sustainable tourism …