{"id":2066,"date":"2011-12-16T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pasopacifico.org\/2011\/12\/december-newsletter-online\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T15:19:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T21:19:43","slug":"december-newsletter-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/december-newsletter-online\/","title":{"rendered":"December Newsletter Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Conservation in ACTION<\/b><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/newsletter-Dec.-2011.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/>Launched earlier this year, the Proyecto Tesoros de Nicaragua ( Proyecto TES\u00d3N), a joint effort to clean up the San Juan River catchment, has already demonstrated how public-private partnerships can work to build a more pristine and sustainable Nicaragua.<\/p>\n<p>There are now three Ambassadors of the Environment working around the clock to clean up garbage near the estuary and along the beach, and to monitor the volume and make up of debris. Proyecto TES\u00d3N&#8217;s Ambassadors also lead seminars for local students on the importance of environmental stewardship, and recruit young people to participate in cleaning up local waterways<a href=\"http:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-content\/newsletters\/2011\/2011-december-newsletter.htm\">&#8230;. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Team member spotlight<\/b><br \/>\nPaso Pacifico&#8217;s executive director Sarah Otterstrom, mother of three, is a PhD ecologist who studied the effects of agricultural burning on the dry tropical forests of southern Nicaragua.<\/p>\n<p>She grew up in in the woods at the edge of high desert country in eastern Washington, did her undergraduate work in Costa Rica, where she led tourism expeditions through the rainforest canopy, and completed her graduate studies at the University of California at Davis<a href=\"http:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-content\/newsletters\/2011\/2011-december-newsletter.htm\">&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Read the full newsletter <a href=\"http:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-content\/newsletters\/2011\/2011-december-newsletter.htm\">online<\/a>.<\/i><\/b><\/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>Conservation in ACTION Launched earlier this year, the Proyecto Tesoros de Nicaragua ( Proyecto TES\u00d3N), a joint effort to clean up the San Juan River catchment, has already demonstrated how public-private partnerships can work to build a more pristine and sustainable Nicaragua. There are now three Ambassadors of the Environment working around the clock to [&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":2513,"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":[218],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miscellaneous","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066","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=2066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6483,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions\/6483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}