Chris Pesenti interviewing Jaime Campos
Jaime Campos recently joined RED Sustainable Travel, heading up communications and sales. RED Director Chris Pesenti sat down for a few questions with Jaime. Continue reading
Loggerhead Turtle Conservation Adventure
This summer, RED is partnering with Grupo Tortuguero‘s ProCaguama (Operation Loggerhead) to offer the travel experience of a lifetime that makes you part of one of the most exciting and successful sea turtle conservation projects on the planet. Join the ProCaguama team in its effort to rescue endangered loggerhead turtles on the Pacific Coast of the Baja California Peninsula. Pacific loggerheads nest along the Japanese archipelago and as juveniles some travel thousands of miles to Mexico, confronting threats from both predators and incidental capture in fishing gear. Continue reading
Therapy session around the bonfire
For the individual working in grassroots conservation or community development, there is a familiar situation, in which an unlikely collection of individuals rally together around a shared objective, whether an issue affecting their community, an endangered species, or an economic goal. A sense of shared purpose is often enough to carry the group forward, in spite of tight budgets and powerful opponents. Continue reading
Las Animas' Handcrafted Knives
A couple weeks ago we (RED Sustainable Travel) played a small role in organizing an event in the Sierra la Giganta, in the community of Las Ánimas. The community held the event to show the outside world – press, municipal, state and federal government agencies, NGO partners and academics, as well as representatives from other communities, what they have achieved over the last 2-3 years as part of a community planning process. Continue reading
Turtle Monitoring
This February I decided to see what was happening in Magdalena Bay on the Sea Turtle Conservation Adventure. I just started working with RED in January and it was my first chance to see the community cooperative in action. I was lucky enough to arrive just in time as the first turtle of the day was being measured and released. Everyone, hosts and guests, were so involved in it that I felt like an outsider interrupting a focused team hard at work. Continue reading
Jorge getting ready for the season!
