{"id":1952,"date":"2009-11-16T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pasopacifico.org\/2009\/11\/saving-wild-places-will-save-the-planet\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T13:41:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T19:41:04","slug":"saving-wild-places-will-save-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/saving-wild-places-will-save-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving Wild Places Will Save the Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;\">We&#8217;re pleased to be included in this piece at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ens-newswire.com\/ens\/nov2009\/2009-11-13-02.asp\">Environmental News Service<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;\">M\u00c9RIDA, Mexico, November 13, 2009 (ENS) &#8211; 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 Pac\u00edfico pays residents up to $2.50 for each turtle hatchling that reaches the surf \u2014 almost 10 times what they would have brought from the market.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>While only one resident participated in the program last year, this year brought in scores.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe problem was no one believed we would actually pay for a baby turtle and everyone knew they were going to get cash from the sea-turtle egg trader,\u201d said Paso Pac\u00edfico founder and executive director Sarah Otterstrom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read more about our <a href=\"http:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/saving-wildlife.html\">sea turtle conservation programs<\/a> here.<\/p>\n<p>Photos from the particular hatch (25 years in the making) referenced in the article <a href=\"http:\/\/pasopacifico.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/meet-ostionals-first-turtle-hatchlings.html\">are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re pleased to be included in this piece at the Environmental News Service: M\u00c9RIDA, Mexico, November 13, 2009 (ENS) &#8211; 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 [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[216,210],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-conservation-initiatives","7":"category-wildlife-conservation","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6195,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions\/6195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}