¡Felicidades Karina! Meet Karina Alvarez, from Pueblo Nuevo in the Rivas province of Nicaragua. Karina won honorable mention in a national children's art contest, after taking a Paso Pacifico-sponsored course in nature painting. Karina is a shining example of how our environmental education programs help develop a culture of conservation.
We're excited to have videographers from CAVUsite.org visiting the Paso del Istmo this week. They're getting footage for a documentary on the future of tourism in Nicaragua. Dedicated to helping people solve complex problems related to the management and conservation of natural resources, CAVU uses flight, film, and education to bring people and communities together for conservation.
San Juan del Sur's Annual Panga Fishing Tournament took place this weekend. Paso Pacifico's National Director, Liza Gonzalez was on hand to deliver a presentation about marine conservation. If you watch this video, you'll understand why everyone at Paso Pacifico is happy to be a part of the San Juan del Sur community.
We're pleased to be included in this piece at the Environmental News Service: MÉRIDA, Mexico, November 13, 2009 (ENS) - For the first time in decades, the eggs of endangered sea turtles buried on a small strip of Nicaraguan beach will not be collected and sold in local food markets. A program developed by nonprofit Paso Pacífico pays residents up to $2.50 for each turtle hatchling that reaches the surf...
You're just as likely to find them in the field in Rivas, checking on our biodiversity monitoring stations, traveling from rural school to rural school on horseback, measuring tree growth at one of our reforestation projects, or just picking up garbage on the beach, but this is Paso Pacifico's Managua-based team. Paso Pacifico team visits the Montibelli Private Nature Reserve
Our friends at AMICTLAN have shared this great video of the white-faced capuchin monkey, with friends of the Laguna de Apoyo Nature Reserve.
Unique solar technology aids Paso Pacifico in protecting endangered sea turtles Media Contacts: Wendy Purnell, Paso Pacifico 1-805-643-7044 wendy@pasopacifico.org Sheila Kennedy, Portable Light Project 1-617-442-0800 skennedy@kvarch.net It was a chance meeting at PopTech’s annual innovation conference two years ago that sparked collaboration between California-based NGO Paso Pacífico and the Portable Light Project. At the event, Paso Pacífico Executive Director, Dr. Sarah Otterstrom, and Portable Light Project founder, Sheila Kennedy,...
Adelayde Rivas, our PR guru in Managua shares a sad story. The other day she got a call from Paso Pacifico, informing her of an arribada at La Flor, the sea turtles were arriving to nest on the beach. She set aside a mountain of work and errands in Managua to head for the coast, dig her feet into the clean sands of the La Flor Wildlife Refuge, and take...
Over at Project Groundswell, S. Neil Larsen, shares his adventures on horseback visiting our Return to Forest program: Under a midday sun, I guided my horse up a steep, dusty slope, eventually emerging at the top of a ridge overlooking a brown valley, roads crisscrossing the landscape. Though it was the dry season on Nicaragua’s Pacific coast, this area seemed more void of life than normal. Above, a large hawk...
We've added photos from this year's Coastal Cleanup to our Flickr photo album. You can browse through the photos here. And the data is in! Over six thousand volunteers picked up over 300,000 pounds of garbage along 167 miles of coastline.
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