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Waves of Change

Liza Gonzalez, Paso Pacifico's national director, has received a scholarship from the Ocean Conservancy to attend the Fifth International Marine Debris Conference in Hawaii later this month. Liza will represent Nicaragua at this annual symposium which brings ocean conservationists together from around the world to: Heighten global understanding and appreciation of the threats posed by marine debris, the cost to coastal communities and marine biodiversity, and the sources of marine debris...

Jaguar Conservation

Threatened throughout its range and long considered locally extinct across wide areas of the western slope of northern Central America, the jaguar (Panthera onca) is a top priority for our habitat restoration and wildlife corridor efforts. Teaming up with wildlife biologist, Miguel Ordeñana, Paso Pacifico is working to mitigate the loss of jaguars resulting from hunting and human-wildlife conflict in the Paso del Istmo Biological Corridor in the Rivas province of Nicaragua. Over the past...

¡Bienvenidos a San Juan del Sur!

Explore San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua with this Gigapan image, which allows you to zoom in and out.

SEEtheWILD

We're pleased to partner with SEEtheWILD, a new organization launched to make conservation the next trend in travel. SEEtheWILD is helping travelers become conservation activists by helping them select eco-tourism destinations which are home to the animals they would like to save. SEEtheWILD was born from the successful initiative SEE Turtles, which links environmentally conscious travelers and volunteers with community-based sea turtle conservation projects. SEEtheWILD expands this model of sustainable tourism to many...

Turtle Hatchlings at Brasilon

Saturday night Paso Pacífico staff and visiting scientists were rewarded for their good deeds by Mother Nature. They watched the emergence of baby endangered green sea turtles and olive ridley turtles from the sands of Brasilon beach, north of Ostional. Our dedicated rangers rescued one of the newly hatched green turtles from the claws of a hungry crab with some furious digging into the sand. They spent the evening documenting the...

Central American Changemakers

From our friends at PRETOMA and the Wildlife Conservation Society of Nicaragua: For all of you who have been following Pretoma’s activities and supported our campaigns, many thanks. We need your help again. We are finalists in a competition called “Change Makers” to support the work we do in the Nicoya Peninsula promoting a sustainable snapper fishery. Please, take the time (only two minutes) and vote at the following site:...

¡Votá por Ellas!

Thank you to everyone who has voted for our ELLAS program in the NatGeo Ashoka Changemakers Geotourism Challenge. We appreciate all the support! El Nuevo Diario yesterday: La iniciativa “ELLAS” que promueve el Organismo No Gubernamental Paso Pacífico, el cual fue escogida por Geotourism Challenge 2010, auspiciado por National Geographic, Ashoka Changemakers y Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, como uno de los 12 finalistas entre más de 250 participantes de diferentes...

Mujeres de Rivas entre finalistas con proyecto de “geoturismo”

Hoy en La Prensa: El trabajo de un grupo de mujeres nicaragüenses por el desarrollo sostenible podría ser considerado el mejor del mundo, pero para eso necesita votos suficientes que lo certifiquen como ganador. Ese grupo participa de un concurso internacional promovido por National Geographic, Ashoka Changesmakers y el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID), similar al de las Siete Maravillas Naturales del Mundo, en el que participó la Isla de...

Wildlife without Borders

From our January newsletter: The endangered Black-handed Spider Monkey is locally extinct across most of western Nicaragua. Through a grant provided by the US Fish and Wildlife Service International Affairs' Wildlife without Borders program, we have begun a monitoring program to document primate populations and to provide employment to local farmers to protect Spider Monkeys at key private reserves across the Paso del Istmo Biological Corridor. Paso Pacífico will also be able to...

Protectors, Not Poachers

From our friend Greg Reitman at The Environmentalist: One of the world’s greatest treasures, sea turtles, is threatened by extinction. With the continued rise of poverty and lack of food resources, egg poaching has become a mainstream commodity and a means for survival. This man-made epidemic has been on the rise for decades, and is most prominent along the beaches of Nicaragua’s Pacific Slope. Poachers, viewed like pirates, roam the...

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