Plant native trees

$10 will plant 10 saplings, which will provide clean air and water and wildlife habitat.

Paso Pacifico helped launch native tree nurseries, allowing women entrepreneurs to sell indigenous trees and plants to the growing hospitality industry, maximizing the beauty of their landscaping and minimizing the economic and environmental costs of maintenance (important in a region with a notoriously long dry season).

Donate $10 to plant native trees.

Light up the night

$25 will buy a solar-paneled portable light bag.

The Portable Light Project furnishes Nicaraguan schoolchildren with these bags, allowing them to study at night. The bags they designed for our turtle rangers have red lights for night patrol which don't disorient the turtle hatchlings who use moonlight to find their way to the sea.

Donate $25 to buy a solar-paneled portable light bag.

Protect a sea turtle nest

$50 will pay for a team of women in our ELLAS initiative to protect a sea turtle nest.

On a beach in Ostional, Nicaragua, where (due to poaching) not a single baby sea turtle had been seen for over 25 years, we trained to work as turtle rangers. They now protect sea turtle nests and help 5600 hatchlings make their way to the sea each year.

Donate $50 to protect a sea turtle nest.

Replace a gill net with turtle-friendly fishing gear

$100 will fund a fishing gear exchange.

The greatest threat to successful nesting is high mortality among adults caught in fishing gear as turtles gather to mate. Your $100 will replace a fishing team's gill net with a turtle-friendly net which will allow them to earn a living without harming critically endangered sea turtles.

Donate $100 to replace a gill net and save sea turtles.

Save an Amazon parrot

$100 will pay for an artificial nest box for the Yellow-naped parrots which have lost nesting habitat due to deforestation.

There are currently fewer than 50 Yellow-naped parrots living in the wild in western Nicaragua. Their eggs are often taken from the nests before they even hatch. Poachers raise them to be sold in the illegal wildlife trade. We are working very hard to restore crucial nesting habitat, rescue captive birds from poachers, and protect existing nests.

Donate $100 to save a Yellow-naped parrot.

Launch a Nicaraguan enviropreneur

$250 will provide specialized training and small business loans for small enterprise in the fields of geotourism and ecosystem services.

Paso Pacifico's ELLAS Initiative and Coastal Entrepreneurs Network support Nicaragua's pioneers in ecotourism with microloans and professional development. Ventures we support include tree nurseries, kayaking tours, and local artisans.

Donate $250 to help launch a Nicaraguan enviropreneur.

Buy a camera trap

$500 will purchase a camera trap and allow us to monitor activity levels of jaguars and prey species.

Camera traps provide undeniable evidence of jaguars' presence in western Nicaragua, establishing the importance of Paso del Istmo as a migratory corridor. Jaguars' unique pelt markings allow biologists to identify individual members of the species. Information gathered from camera traps will allow us to monitor activity levels of jaguars and prey species, to ensure the connectivity of the corridor, and to promote human coexistence with jaguars.

Donate $500 for a camera trap.

Provide critical Spider Monkey forest habitat

$1,000 will help us restore forest canopy in the Paso del Istmo Biological Corridor for our umbrella species, the Black-handed Spider Monkey.

The Black-handed Spider Monkey, is completely arboreal (tree-dwelling) and relies on connected forest canopies to survive. Forest fragmentation and poaching have made spider monkeys the most endangered primate in Central America. Paso Pacifico's reforestation projects provide migratory corridors for spider monkeys, which also serve three-toed sloths, howler monkeys, yellow-naped parrots, tapirs, ocelots, and more.

Donate $1,000 to restore forest canopy and protect Spider Monkeys.

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