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Your gifts made a difference for forest wildlife!
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Your donations helped great curassows (Crax rubra) recover in a Central American forest! These distinct birds are identifiable by the feathers that run across their head, and our camera traps have captured an increased number of them foraging close to dusk. They mostly eat insects and fallen fruit. Females (above) are brown and white and males (below) are black with bright yellow beaks.
Great curassows are important forest builders because they disperse seeds of forest trees and shrubs. They also serve as prey to larger predators such as margays and ocelots.
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By supporting our work to protect forests, you made a difference for great curassows, which have been classified as vulnerable by the IUCN. Your support did this by helping to regrow the forests and ward off poachers. Footage from camera traps helped document the great curassows' return.
Efforts to protect these distinct birds were made possible by your generous support. We are grateful for your passion for wildlife. Thank you!
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Thank you for helping us monitor the forests!
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Meet Marcos Calero, Paso Pacífico's wildlife technician. He leads our forest wildlife monitoring through the use of camera traps. He has worked with us for ten years. His passion for wildlife, especially yellow-naped amazon parrots and forest carnivores like the jaguar, are helping keeping these field programs going.
Marcos has a special interest in native stingless bees. In past years, he helped take a census of bees in the region and documented over 100 native bee species! He and his wife live in the community of Cárdenas, and he hopes to attend graduate school in the near future. Thank you for supporting Marcos' work!
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Collaborating with scientists helps strengthen our conservation work and increase the impacts of your donations. We want to thank Nicaraguan biologist José Gabriel Martínez-Fonseca for collaborating with us (and donors like you!) on practical research in our geography.
You can see a list of his publications here. Many of them involved work with Paso Pacífico and Dr. Carol Chambers, a bat researcher and professor at Northern Arizona University who is also a valued collaborator. We have had the privilege of working with both José Gabriel and Carol for over a decade.
José Gabriel went on to study with Carol, earning both a masters and now, this month, his PhD! Join us in sharing our sincerest congratulations to Dr. José Gabriel Martínez-Fonseca for his completed PhD dissertation, Scale Effects of Forest Fragmentation on Neotropical and Temperate Bat Species. José Gabriel compiled data on over 18,000 bats, over 500 sites, and over 100 bat species that exist in Nicaragua.
Congratulations and thank you to Dr. José Gabriel Martínez-Fonseca!
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Photo by Dr. José Gabriel Martínez-Fonseca.
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Graphic: Innovation Nation. Egg photo: GOOD Magazine.
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Would you please vote for our GPS turtle egg on Twitter? Last October, the InvestEGGator was featured on The Henry Ford's Innovation Nation with Mo Rocca. Our executive director Sarah Otterstrom and conservation scientist Kim Williams-Guillén were interviewed about this remarkable technology that is helping save sea turtles! Now, we need your support to help us win #MoMadness, a Twitter-exclusive competition with weekly polls. Log in and vote by this Friday.
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This competition kicked off on April 4, and a winner will be announced on April 29. Join the Twitter fun by voting today and asking friends to vote for us. None of this would be possible without passionate supporters like you. Thank you.
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PARTNERS MAKE IT POSSIBLE
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Morgan's Rock Hacienda and Ecolodge is an eco-conscious resort that is helping protect and restore coastline in southern Nicaragua. As part of its commitment to sustainability, the resort sustains a 4,000-acre nature reserve composed of tropical dry forests which house unique species that include pumas, black-handed spider monkeys, and tayras.
Morgan's Rock has been instrumental in helping the endangered yellow-naped Amazon parrot. Their staff work closely with our parrot monitoring team (which exists thanks to your support) to keep parrot nests safe from poaching. This month, seven young parrots from the Morgan's Rock reserve left their nests and flew into the wild!
With help from Morgan's Rock, and you, there is hope for the critically endangered yellow-naped Amazon parrot. Thank you to the people from Morgan's Rock for their commitment to preserving wildlife and the forests around them.
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Thank you to all the photographers who contributed photos used in this e-newsletter. These include but are not limited to CBS' Innovation Nation, Morgan's Rock Hacienda & Ecolodge, Dr. José Gabriel Martínez-Fonseca, Roberto Pedraza, Bismarck Picado, and Paso Pacífico staff.
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