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Olive Ridley sea turtle hatchlings at Refugio Vida Silvestre La Flor. Playa La Flor, Nicaragua. © Hal Brindley .com

CBS Innovation Nation Appearance

Reader, we come to you with some exciting and extraordinary news! This Saturday, October 16, Paso Pacífico’s InvestEGGator will be featured on The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation with Mo Rocca. We hope you'll tune in and spread the word to help others learn about our unique and life-saving technology. Our executive director Dr. Sarah Otterstrom and conservation scientist Dr. Kim Williams-Guillén were interviewed about our remarkable technology that is helping save sea turtles! We...

¡Un Nuevo Festival!

Estamos participando en el Primer Festival Regional Loros Mesoamericanos y queríamos compartir los siguientes concursos con la familia de los Junior Rangers. Los invitamos a participar en los concursos de pinturas, historietas y memes en alusion al primer festival regional de loros mesoamericanos. Para cualquier pregunta o detalle, comuníquese con el contacto indicado. Indicación General Los ganadores de las distintas categorías del concurso serán anunciados en nuestras redes sociales y se subirán...

Pochote Oyster Update!

Oysters keep the oceans healthy. They filter up to 50 gallons of ocean water a day and form banks with their shells, giving habitat and protection! Without them, seawater is more polluted, coasts erode more easily, and there is less habitat for sea life. With your support and with generous funding from the PRBB Foundation, the oyster cooperative in the village of Pochote has made great strides for oysters and more. The aim...

Surfing in El Salvador's Wild East Oriente Salvaje, photo by Javier Alejandro Ramos Arias

A Tale of Two (Surf) Cities

By Jason G. Goldman Later this month, more than 250 surfers from 52 nations will take to the waters of El Salvador to compete in the 2021 Surf City El Salvador ISA World Surfing Games. Meeting in the town of El Tunco, around 80 kilometers east of Los Cobanos on El Salvador's Pacific Coast, the athletes will compete for the twelve remaining slots available for competition at the Tokyo 2020...

The Global “City Nature Challenge”

By Jason G. Goldman When Lila Higgins first had the idea to pit Los Angeles against San Francisco in a race to see which city could generate the most biodiversity data in just eight days, she had no idea it would spawn a global movement. The year was 2016, and the Obama White House had declared April 16 of that year as "Citizen Science Day." Higgins, the Senior Director of...

This Machete Grows Trees!

In Central America, some farmers use machetes to plant "living fences" and assist forest regrowth. There is significant potential for mass forest regrowth efforts using their techniques, but this information is hard to find. Today, you can fund the pilot project that will gather this information, design easy instructions and pilot this program to 1000 farmers so they can grow 20,000 trees. Until 11:59 pm EDT on Friday, April 23,...

Big Cats

By Jason G. Goldman Biologist Miguel Ordeñana crouches down in the shade of a forest and reaches into his pack for a small bottle. He sprays the substance on a tree just a few feet above the ground. A few meters away behind him is a camera trap he's deployed. The liquid he's spraying is a cologne called Calvin Klein Obsession for Men and if he's lucky, the scent will...

Marcos Calero delivers incentives to a family of parrot protectors in front of the parrot-adorned truck funded by Loro Parque Fundacion.

Partnering for Parrots

By Jason G. Goldman The writing was on the wall more than a decade ago, or at least it seemed to be. Though the species was classified as one of "least concern" by the IUCN, yellow-naped amazon parrots were struggling in the Paso del Istmo region of Nicaragua. The green-feathered birds sport patches of red on their wingtips and are named for the yellow on top of their necks. A...

View of San Salvador. Photo by Sarah Otterstrom.

Urban Parrots of San Salvador

By Jason G. Goldman The world lurched to a standstill in the spring of 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic infiltrated nearly every corner of the planet. But while our daily lives slowed and changed, the rest of the natural world kept plodding on, almost oblivious to the fear and angst gripping human communities. Spending all that time at home, many people began looking out their windows or going on long...

Decoy Eggs

By Jason G. Goldman As the sun sets on the beaches of Costa Rica's Pacific coastline, a man walks along looking for comma-shaped scoop marks in the sand, the telltale sign of a nesting sea turtle. He follows a set of tracks from the water's edge until they stop. That's where he starts digging. Eventually, he uncovers a hundred or more leathery eggs, each the size of a ping-pong ball....

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