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Our friends at AMICTLAN have shared this great video of the white-faced capuchin monkey, with friends of the Laguna de Apoyo Nature Reserve.
Conservation Efforts in Nicaragua Shed Portable Light on the Pacific Coast
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,...
Vida y muerte en La Flor
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...
Nicaragua’s Land, Trees, and People
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...
Coastal Cleanup Summary
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.
Sea turtle Hatchlings Follow the Brightest Light
This bittersweet story of a romantic marriage proposal with unintended consequences for marine life, is a good illustration of why Paso Pacifico Turtle Rangers have custom-designed red lights on their solar FLAP bags from the Portable Light Project. A romantic marriage proposal on a Hilton Head Island beach Tuesday night had an unintended consequence -- the death of about 60 federally protected loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings. A man had placed...
Saturday’s Successful Coastal Cleanup
Volunteers hard at work in Ostional Starting early in the morning, thousands of volunteers joined us in our efforts to protectNicaragua's waterways for the International Coastal Cleanup Day, an annual event organized by the Ocean Conservancy. Our volunteers worked along the coast from San Juan del Sur to Ostional, and up the riverbanks to Escameca. Coastal cleanup includes our river banks. These kids are lending a hand in Escameca. This event...
Midway Journey
The MIDWAY media project is a powerful visual journey into the heart of an astonishingly symbolic environmental tragedy. The Midway Trash-a-Thon illustrates the importance of cleaning up our waterways. Watch this video of two members of the Midway Journey project rummaging through a huge pile of garbage. It looks like they could be at a municipal dump, but they're just sitting among garbage collected on the beaches of the tiny,...
September 19th: Get Read to Cleanup the Coastline
“Limpieza Internacional de Costas” Nicaragua 2009 PROGRAMA 6:00a.m. - Salida de Managua 9:00 a.m. Llegada a San Juan del Sur 9:30ª.m. Palabras de apertura y agradecimiento Alcalde de la Municipalidad de San Juan del Sur, Jorge Sánchez. 9:45ª.m. Palabras de Liza González, Directora Nacional de Paso Pacífico. 10:00 Acto Cultural a cargo del grupo Folclórico de San Juan del Sur. 12:30p.m Almuerzo 3:00p.m. Cierre de Campaña Limpieza Internacional de...
Noche Tropical
Event to benefit Central American forests, wildlife Noche Tropical September 11th Brooks Restaurant Ventura, CA We're in the news at the Ventura County Star: Local wines, a Latin-inspired meal and stories from the tropics will highlight Noche Tropical, a fundraiser benefiting the wildlife and forests of Central America on Thursday at BROOKS Restaurant in Ventura. “This fundraiser was inspired by realizing that there are members of the local community who...