Paso Pacifico is fortunate to collaborate with extraordinary organizations that help to make our programs a success. Partner organizations make our work possible by providing technical expertise and monetary support.

We begin to highlight some of these partnerships here:

• DANIDA - Coastal-Marine Research Project
  

The Danish International Cooperation Agency (DANIDA) is an organization of the people of Denmark and its Ministry of Foreign Affairs which aims to reduce global poverty and help people to take charge of their own destiny.

Through the support of this community-focused agency, we have launched a major coastal-marine conservation initiative entitled: Coastal-Marine Research Project - Ensuring the Scientific and Educational Foundations for the Protection and Management of Sea Turtles at the La Flor and Rio Escalante-Chacocente Wildlife Refuges.

This effort aims to improve our knowledge of sea turtles in their nesting and foraging habitat and sthrengthen the local capacity to study and protect these sea turtles. This project involves fishermen as decision-makers in marine habitat management and empowers coastal communities in taking meausres to protect sea turtle nests on solitary beaches.

Thanks to DANIDA's financial support and the scientific expertise of its staff in Nicaragua, Paso Pacifico and the coastal communities of the Paso del Istmo are taking a big stride towards improved management and protection of marine life. Updates on the progress of this project, which began in July 2011, will be made availabe in the coming weeks via Project Profiles.