We are pleased to introduce Alexa, the Hawksbill turtle to our colleagues and fellow friends of the sea. Alexa is named for Alex Gaos, co-founder of ICAPO, the Eastern Pacific Hawksbill Initiative. Alex and Ingrid Yañez have linked many people in Central America in their efforts to discover, understand, and protect the Hawksbill populations of the Eastern Pacific. Alexa arrived on the beach at the La Flor Wildlife Refuge in southern...
Querido Amigos y Compañeros del mar, Quiero presentarles a la tortuga Carey, ALEXA. Ella es bendecida con su nombre en honor a nuestro dinámico y motivador líder Alex Gaos. Gracias a Alex e Ingrid todos somos vinculados como amigos y socios en la urgente causa de descubrir y proteger a la tortuga Carey del Pacífico Oriental. Alexa arribó a una playa del sur pacífico de Nicaragua (ubicado en el RVS...
Salvador Sanchez has been selected to travel to Argentina on a full scholarship for the eighth annual Latin American regional ranger training course. We're pleased that Salvador has been selected as the fourth Paso Pacifico ranger to represent Nicaragua in this prestigious program. We're proud of Salvador and all of our rangers, and we're grateful to Rick Smith and the Turner Foundation for their help building our successful ranger programs.
The California state Senate voted this week to make the endangered Pacific leatherback sea turtle the official marine reptile of California. Assuming Governor Jerry Brown signs the legislation into law, October 15th will officially be Leatherback Conservation Day in the state of California. Mark your calendars! Paso Pacifico's head turtle ranger, Salvador Sanchez, inspects a leatherback turtle on one of the beaches where we work to protect sea turtle nests. Every...
Our friends at the Turtle Conservancy have launched The Tortoise, their new magazine dedicated to the appreciation and conservation of tortoises and turtles and their habitats worldwide. “Turtles and tortoises have been on our earth for more than 200 million years, before the great dinosaurs roamed the planet, and today they face unprecedented challenges for their survival. No vertebrate Order has a greater percentage of species facing extinction. This publication is...
A team from Bats Conservation International, Paso Pacifico, and MARENA studies bats at Volcano Masaya National Park. Bats are essential to ecosystem health and their populations are dwindling around the world, so it is important to understand individual bat species, bat populations, and, of course, the reasons for their decline. In Nicaragua, we study bat populations and their insect diets because we're considered not just with ecological health, but also with...
Saralisa, the green sea turtle we tagged in June, is off the coast of El Salvador. She has traveled a long way and is now in the waters where two of the turtles recently tagged by ICAPO have run into trouble. One was blown up by dynamite fishing, the other caught in a fishing net (illustrating the importance of sustainable fisheries). We'll be watching Saralisa very closely over the next...
In ten days on Playa Colorado for the ISA World Masters Surfing Championship, we hauled out 21000 pounds of garbage and 3000 pounds of recycables. Thanks again to partner organizations RENISA and Proyecto TESÓN who helped us keep the beaches clean.
Sadly, today's batch of links includes news of the deaths of two critically endangered Hawksbills, both of whom were tagged by ICAPO earlier this summer. This video from Media Center ElSalvador.com (in Spanish) features interviews with ICAPO staff, as well as mangrove conservationists, and provides a thorough overview of the significance of the lessons learned from these particular turtles, one of whom died as a result of fishing with explosives, the other...
On July 14th the International Surfing Association World Masters Surfing Championship opened on Playa Colorado, Nicaragua, bringing the world's best surfers, surfing fans, and international media to the region where we work. Surfwire described Playa Colorado as "a place where the jungle met the sand and the Howler Monkeys offered early-morning wake-up calls" giving the international visitors "a first-hand opportunity to see and be a part of a surf culture...
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