Lawyers, Guns and Money: Gold Mining and Biodiversity in the Biosphere Reserve
There’s a serpent in the Sierras and the botanists know just what to do!
Sea Turtles: A Baja Road Trip
Baja’s Sea Turtles: Saving the planet one road trip at a time.
Wooing a Whale: Humpback Crooners in Baja
Whale song and sin – how humpback males get the girl.
SmartFish
Fishermen at Magdalena Bay sell some of their fish for between 5 and 8 pesos per kilo. By comparison, dirty plastic bottles fetch 9 or 10 pesos per kilo. This means that these fishermen are literally selling their fish for less than garbage, and to break even at that rate they need to catch and sell 800 kilos per day. To make money they need to do 1,000 kilos per day, and there is no way for a small boat to maintain quality at those volumes. This is the reverse alchemy that plagues Baja fishermen: they catch something that could be worth gold, but they’re selling it for less than garbage.”
Manta Rays: The Ocean’s Kings of Charisma
A big-brained charismatic shark cousin? That’s just the beginning of the Manta story!
Water Pressure in Baja California Sur
La Paz is running out of water so it’s building an aqueduct to pump it in from El Carrizal. Los Cabos is running out of water so it’s contracting with a private desalination plant to boost supply. El Triunfo has water but residents refuse to drink it; it’s still contaminated by the arsenic released by mining operations at the turn of the last century. Baja California Sur is not only Mexico’s driest state*, but the country’s second fastest growing state by population. These two trends seem to be barreling towards a head-on collision that could take an enormous environmental, economic and public health toll on the state. Whether or not that collision takes place in the future depends largely on the actions we residents take today.
The Festivals of Todos Santos: 2014
By Todos Santos Eco Adventures 2013 was an incredibly exciting year for festivals in Todos Santos, with truly great bands playing at the Music Festival, thrilling films and directors showing at … Continue reading
The Saints of Todos Santos: Eco-Educator Paty Baum
Meet eco educator, punk rocker, beach dweller, film maker, turtle protector, surf breaker Paty Baum!
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