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Ostional a pueblo in the municipality of San Juan del Sur in the Rivas Department of the Southwest region of Nicaragua was, by accounts of multiple testimonials in the local region, to be founded by their indigenous ancestors due to an abundant conch population at the sea shore to which they migrated. Subsequently, the tribe used the shells of the conch in many held rituals and customs. In 2008, it was reported by witnesses of local archaeological dig that conch shells were found within the graves of some indigenous people within their recently rediscovered cemetery grounds. Some still maintained jade stones, implying the significance of conch shells within their tribal society. |
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Ostional Private Wildlife Reserve is a 4 year development project with the intent to establish a unique, ecologically sound and community focused presence in one of the second poorest nations in the Western hemisphere.
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 Don't buy your tickets yet!
Ostional Private WildLife Reserve is officially opening up on December 12, 2012. To raise funds for the our restoration and regenerative design implementation, we are allocating the opening of BioBalls on May 19, 2009. This date is tentative (it is the birthday of Kevin Shea. Yeah!!), but with good fortune, the first bio-based regenerative design paintball sport shall be open for business. |
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 Ostional Private Wildlife Reserve; 46 acres; Ostional, Rivas, Nicaragua.
The Ostional Private Wildlife Reserve is 40 minutes south of San
Juan Del Sur, on the Carreterra Costenara (Coastal Higway), 2km south
of the military post within Ostional. View a google map of the area. |
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 Through analyzing existing regionally and nationally accepted
standards, members of the Network agreed upon a set of baseline
criteria for sustainable tourism certification (View the criteria in English (PDF - 56 KB) and Spanish (PDF - 57 KB)
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Consumer demand is growing, travel industry suppliers are developing
new green programs, and governments are creating new policies to
encourage "sustainable" practices in tourism. But what does that really mean? How can it be measured and credibly demonstrated,
in order to build consumer confidence, promote efficiency, and fight
false claims?
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O Corporation International is an international S-corporation registered in Delaware, USA |
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Kevin
Shea is a self-employed social entrepreneur retired FDNY from Hazardous
Materials Operations at Hazmat Technician II level after sustaining
major injuries during 9/11. |
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With
the continued mission to help others and make a difference, I have
extended my services and funds to Nicaragua, a beautiful country with
wonderful people, yet currently the second poorest nation in the
western hemisphere. |
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The
private wildlife reserve will accommodate 3 or more fundamental
functions of use and passive use values while maintaining benefits for
the ecosystem and species and the community: (1) low impact education
and eco-tours and activities; (2) small scale
biofuels/energy/food/water production and sales; (3) emergency response
unit for disaster relief to be operated by NGOs (particularly leaning
toward the Red Cross). Their are many functions underneath the canopy
of the three sectors.
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O has 3 distinct goals:
(1) community development and disaster relief (people),
my
primary mission is to develop workshops, mentoring projects, a digital
library, project placement services, and other services. |
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we started to process May 2008, and we expect to be functional and open to public officially December 12, 2012. |
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Ostional
and San Juan Del Sur are by far one of the friendliest and progressive
places, amicable to good ideas. Recent reports of President Ortega's
distaste in American politics seems to not seem to affect the current
project, nor the attitudes and commitment of the local stakeholders I
work with. Even with current political strife over the current 2008 elections in Leon, Southwest Nicaragua seems unabated in its quest to move forward. |
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