EnglishHonu Has Returned to Brasilon
This weekend, Honu, the turtle we've been tracking since last month returned to Brasilon beach. You can follow her on her SeaTurtle.org page.
Nicaragua’s Jaguars
This fall, Paso Pacífico's team of wildlife biologists and machete-wielding rangers faced huge spiders, floods, earthquakes, and chest-deep swamps to place two dozen camera traps in remote forest areas. Their goal? To capture the elusive jaguars long thought extinct in the tropical forests of Nicaragua. Two years ago, an intern's camera trap captured one, proving their existence and highlighting the need for their protection. Jaguars require large areas of understory...
Empowering Women with Sustainable Energy
“Reducing energy poverty among women is a wise investment,” said Princess Haya, of the UAE, at this week's World Energy Forum 2012. We agree, which is why we partner with the Portable Light Project to develop solar textile lanterns made by women in rural Nicaragua, and used by women and children without electricity in their homes, extending their reading hours. The lanterns are also used by our turtle rangers. During the daytime,...
60 Years of Innovation
"We teach them that the ocean is alive and we've got to take care of it." Jack O'Neill "The Sea Odyssey Program has given an experience of a living ocean to 50,000 kids already."
Costs & Benefits of Preserving Nature
Mother Jones: "A global effort to prevent all future species extinctions would cost about $80 billion a year, or $11.42 annually from every person on the planet, according to a study published last week in Science." Scientific American: "More specifically, the study finds that lowering the extinction risk for all of the species that are currently known to be threatened would cost the first $4 billion per year. Protecting and...
500,000 Olive Ridley Sea Turtles
From the Turtle Conservancy's October Newsletter: Eric Goode along with writer Glenn O’Brien and Kortnie Coles traveled to the Pacific coast of Mexico to witness a natural phenomenon called an arribada (the Spanish word for “arrival”). During a 3 week period, over 500,000 Olive Ridley Sea Turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) nest on a 3 km stretch of Escobilla Beach in Oaxaca. This nesting event peaks during the month of September. Only...
Climate Change Threatens Staple Crops
From ClimateWire: Beans and corn -- the staples of the Central American diet -- will become more difficult to grow as climate change progresses, according to a new study. ... Certain "hot spots" that are especially vulnerable are spread throughout the region, especially in Honduras and western Nicaragua. But other spots, including many areas in eastern Nicaragua and eastern Honduras, will become good adaptation areas for corn and beans through...
Robot Fish Patrolling for Plastics?
Over at Treehugger, you can read about "robo-fish, which were developed to look like and swim like real fish, can autonomously seek out pollution, debris and chemicals in the water and then feed information back to shore where it can be analyzed."
Maximizando Nuestro Momentum
Eleven rules for maximizing your momentum, from Paso Pacífico board member Gian Marco Palazio:
Delisting the Honu
Our friends at the Sea Turtle Restoration Project join the opposition of the delisting of the Hawaiian green sea turtle: Turtles Face Premature Loss of Protections and Return of Hunting Hawaiian green sea turtle populations have increased steadily since their hunting was banned and they were given federal protections and listed as threatened under the ESA in 1978. However, the Hawaiian honu is far from reaching the official government recovery...