{"id":53,"date":"2013-04-25T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pasopacifico.org\/2013\/04\/from-turtle-harvest-to-turtle-home\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T07:31:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T13:31:20","slug":"from-turtle-harvest-to-turtle-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/from-turtle-harvest-to-turtle-home\/","title":{"rendered":"From Turtle Harvest to Turtle Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Jerry9betteredit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"132\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Over at One World One Ocean&#8217;s blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oneworldoneocean.com\/blog\/entry\/from_turtle_harvest_to_turtle_home#.UXhRv4LfUfo\">The Water Column<\/a>,\u00a0Sarah Bedolfe tells a story from Indonesia which will sound very familiar to Paso Pac\u00edfico&#8217;s friends and followers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For generations, the island residents of Runduma, Indonesia have been harvesting sea turtle eggs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The egg harvest was a tradition&#8230;\u00a0eggs were eaten as well as sold for about 1,000 rupiah (9 cents) each and used for community expenses\u2013fixing a new water filtration system, helping poor families send their kids to school\u2013making them important for the local economy.<br \/>\nHowever, the turtles are endangered and a lot has changed in Runduma in recent years. Far from being the turtles\u2019 hunters, the islanders are now their allies&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Now, the people of Runduma no longer need to harvest turtle eggs to make a living. Instead, they are thriving while working to save the turtles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We are always pleased to hear about efforts to save endangered sea turtles, and especially glad to see that others having success <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pasopacifico.org\/approach.html#heartsminds\">creating a culture of conservation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pasopacifico.org\/conservation-incentives.html\">sea turtle credits and incentive payments for conservation<\/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>Over at One World One Ocean&#8217;s blog, The Water Column,\u00a0Sarah Bedolfe tells a story from Indonesia which will sound very familiar to Paso Pac\u00edfico&#8217;s friends and followers: For generations, the island residents of Runduma, Indonesia have been harvesting sea turtle eggs. The egg harvest was a tradition&#8230;\u00a0eggs were eaten as well as sold for about [&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":2386,"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":[213,210],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-conservation-areas-projects","8":"category-wildlife-conservation","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"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=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5911,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/5911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}