Jaime, my downstream neighbor, makes paddles from Playamart materials and knows every nuance of the river.
(Jama/Manabi/Ecuador) – Yesterday I visited with Jaime, the fisherman who lives at the mouth of Rio Jama, and I asked him about the turtles in the river. He confirmed that sea turtles navigate the mangrove-lined river, and he added that the turtles have three types of meat – oh my!
My friend Paola Durango, who works with Ceiba Foundation, and I had walked to the ‘boca’ – mouth of the river to visit with Jaime about an upcoming project to document the marine species in this final curve of Rio Jama. Paola politely told Jaime that there were less than 1,000 Hawksbills left on the entire Eastern Pacific Coast. There is an urgent need to educate the people (worldwide) who live in sea turtle habitat!
Paola and Jaime talk about turtles and marine life.
The race for Sungevity’s $20,000 prize is approaching the final stretch, and excitement builds as three groups thunder toward the finish line! With selfish interest, I’m hopeful that Ingrid and Alex’s ICAPO foundation will win that prize.for the Hawksbill Turtles so that they can visit and teach me how to monitor the turtle activity in this river!
It’s a sea turtle! Could it be an extremely-endangered hawksbill?
Back to the contest: The
Hawksbill Turtles (ICAPO) have been several hundred votes in the lead for most of this past week! The Frogs have been gaining, and now the Groundwork Opportunities group is coming from behind! Yikes, it’s time to rally and help keep the Hawksbills in the lead!
Eastern Pacific Hawksbill Initiative 3695 votes
Save the Frogs 3675 votes
Groundwork Opportunities 3215 votes
Please spread the word and encourage others to vote for the Hawksbill Turtles!
“Please help save the remaining endangered Hawksbill Sea Turtles! Extinct means shame on all of us!”
Vote HERE (http://www.sungevity.org/gives-back), please, and share this with as many other nature lovers as possible!
Thanks!
Lisa/Z
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I’ve done my duty again! Vote early and vote often, as they say. I used a different email address – but to atone for my sin, I sent off the information to a whole bunch of other people, telling them they could vote for whichever group they pleased – but of course the smart and beautiful and clever among them would vote for the turtles!
Fingers crossed – and best wishes to you. Good to see your post pop up!
thank you so much! it would be great to report new sea turtle discoveries in the next few months as the rainy season approaches here.
it looks like another bad weather system is about to sweep part of the usa. i hope that it doesn’t bring freezing temps down to you; my colorado friends are expecting some nasty weather.
i’ve been trying to send this since you first left the comment; hopefully by the end of the month, a new faster system will be in place. i’ll be in shock if comments start going through faster than a turtle could walk!
thanks so much for helping the future of the sea turtles!
Voted. I like Shoreacres’ approach! 😉
thanks! i replied right after you were so kind to leave this comment, and it appears that the comments took flight and went awol! i think there’s a good chance that the turtles will keep their lead! thanks for helping and for spreading the word!
I can definitely see the need for local education. 1000 turtles to Jaime may seem like a lot, not a few. I also like Shoreacres approach.
you are so right! 1,000 turtles would provide quite a feast for a long time.
thank you so much for helping the turtles!
lisa/z
They’ve advanced to a lead of 50! Thanks to those who passed the info to others!
Reblogged this on Midwestern Plants and commented:
Please vote again for the turtles!
reblogged this, will also go to facebook, Gooo turtles !!
Reblogged this on Living It Up in Ecuador and commented:
Help save the turtles !! It’s free and easy to vote 🙂
Yes! Done.
Much luck to them.
So, they both dusted the hare in the race? Thanks for the update.
Unfortunately, I am unable to vote because I am Canadian 😦 – tweeted it, just the same.
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Hi Lisa/Z – I thought of your wonderful blog when deciding on nominations for the Versatile Blogger award and I have granted you the Versatile Blogger Award. I hope you enjoy it. I can totally understand if you do not wish to participate. I think your blog is wonderful and wanted you to know that. I’ve linked to this post so perhaps that will help the worthy cause garner more votes.
http://babsjeheron.wordpress.com/2013/12/12/versatile-blogger-award/
the hard thing is they are all causes worth helping