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Track Our Turtles!

Our turtle rangers in Nicaragua affixed satellite transmitters to two Hawksbill turtles, Karen and Brasilia. You can follow their movement here: http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/?project_id=295&dyn=1246546646

First Pacific Hawksbills Tagged in Nicaragua

Schoolchildren from Ostional named this Hawksbill Brasilia A huge advancement for Hawksbill research in the eastern Pacific, Karen and Brasilia, are the first Hawksbills ever tagged on Nicaragua's Pacific coast. They will provide great tracking information in this extremely data deficient region. Stay tuned for information about how to track the turtles!

Tracking Turtles

We have a hawksbill turtle at the beach where the rangers are and in the next 24 hours will be affixing a satellite transmitter to it to follow its movement across the eastern Pacific. More soon!

A Global Review of Incentive Payments for Sea Turtle Conservation

Published earlier this year, two economists published a paper in the BioOne Online Journal: The use of performance payments to achieve conservation outcomes is increasingly being used as an alternative to traditional regulatory and development-based approaches in low-income nations. Although payments are increasingly common in terrestrial species and ecosystem conservation initiatives, they are rare in marine conservation efforts such as sea turtle protection. This paper describes sea turtle incentive payment...

Setting the World on Fire

Drawing from "Fire in the Earth System," a literature review published in the April 24 Science, Solmaz Barazesh explains fire ecology in his article in this week's Science News, "Ecology, climate and human activities conspire to set the world on fire," July 4th, 2009; Vol.176 #1 (p. 26). Fire can shape landscapes, shift climate and even change processes such as the carbon cycle--blazes have impacted the planet for eons. But...

Salvador Sánchez, natural leader…for nature

From humble origins, Salvador Sánchez, was elected as a community leader in the small fishing village of Ostional, near San Juan del Sur, became a conservationist, and is now a respected leader and successful entrepreneur. This is his story.(Adapted from the Spanish piece written by Adelayde Rivas Sotelo) Natural Leader Ostional is a small fishing community 24 kilometers south of the San Juan del Sur Harbor, in Rivas, Nicaragua's southwestern-most...

Salvador Sánchez, líder por naturaleza

De origen humilde y trabajador, Salvador Sánchez, líder comunitario del pueblo pesquero de Ostional, en el municipio de San Juan del Sur, adaptó la filosofía de la conservación de los recursos naturales, hoy día no sólo es un respetado dirigente, también es un pequeño empresario de éxito. Esta es su historia.Por: Adelayde Rivas Sotelo LíDER POR NATURALEZA Ostional es un pueblo pesquero ubicado a 24 kilómetros al sur de la...

Our Project is Now on the Map

Zoom in on Nicaragua for an overview of our turtle project at seaturtle.org, an online directory of organizations involved in sea turtle research and conservation around the world.

ARBOLES para GAIA – Estrago Ecologico

Our neighbors, the Ojai-based RageJax Foundation has provided support for the ARBOLES para GAIA - Estrago Ecologico art exhibit opening in Managua next Friday. Paso Pacifico is providing several thousand trees to be given out at the exhibit, and each of the artists have created designs that will be on the bags in which the seedlings are placed. To check out the artists and their work, visit the exhibit's blog...