Cūra Earth

01/30/2019

This outbreak is continuing to infect unabated, and neighboring countries have been preparing for what seems like a strong possibility, that it will cross borders.

South Sudan began vaccinating health workers and other front-line responders against Ebola amid fears the virus could spread from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

12/25/2018

Happy Holidays to all our supporters! Thank you for your generosity during our year end fundraising effort (still a long way to go to fund our Ebola program https://buff.ly/2Q5YUB2) and your support all year long!

11/27/2018

It is ! There are few things in my mind that you can donate to today that can have more of an impact on the individual lives of people in war torn eastern DR Congo, not just from the Ebola outbreak, but by educating people on the importance of sanitation, vaccines, and avoiding bushmeat in order to reduce exposure to lots of infectious diseases. This program is by Congolese people for Congolese people, and I think that should be something we can all get behind. Learn more at www.curaearth.org and please check out our GoFundMe-share, retweet, ask your boss for a matching donation, ask your family...

https://www.gofundme.com/campaign-for-congolese-response-to-ebola-crisis&rcid=r01-154333058431-df1fc6730756492a&pc=ot_co_campmgmt_w

Want to join me in making a difference? I'm raising money for Cura Earth and the Congolese group Volunteers for Fauna and Flora (VCFF), and any donation will help make impact. Thanks in advance for your contribution to this cause that means so much to us. More information about Cura Earth: Cura...

11/26/2018

Happy Cyber Monday! Don't forget that if you use Amazon, pick Cūra Earth as your charity and Amazon will donate a portion of what you spend. Later today you will hear about a new fundraising/public health project so we really need your help making our conservation and public health programs continue! This Cyber Monday, do your regular Amazon shopping at smile.amazon.com/ch/45-4266820 and AmazonSmile donates to Cura Earth.

When you shop at AmazonSmile, Amazon will donate to Cura Earth. Support us every time you shop.

10/26/2018

Having recently returned from a trip to Nicaragua to start our collaboration with Paso Pacifico, our President Dr. Tauer was able to meet these brave ecorangers, and spend a day training them to start collecting samples for our sea turtle microbiome study. Check out this short article about Paso Pacifico's response to increased sea turtle poaching in the region, and help out if you can- they just hired 2 new rangers but there are a LOT of beaches, some small, some quite big, in this area that need protection.

New threat growing on Nicaragua beaches

09/10/2018

Devastated to hear this. Keep up the fight against deforestation.

The animated movie about two Spix's Macaws saving their species ends happily. The real world version doesn't

09/05/2018

Just an FYI, our website is on the fritz at the moment, but we hope to have it back up and running on a new server ASAP. We will let you know here and on Twitter and Instagram when it is back up. Thank you for following us and continuing to support us! We have a lot of exciting information to share with you as soon as it is back up in a new blog post, so watch for a notification about that!

07/02/2018

This article is missing the point. Yes, plastic straws make up a fraction of the total plastic waste in the ocean, but the movement to ban plastic straws has more to do with the disproportionate effect straws *in particular* have on certain species of sea life, sea turtles especially. So, yes, please ban plastic straws and use reuseable ones or at least biodegradable ones. But ALSO reduce single use plastic of all kinds. These do not have to be mutually exclusive actions, and shouldn't be. In the case of sea turtles, they consume millions, if not possibly billions, of plastic bags and other plastic objects they mistake for jellyfish and other ocean prey. Same with other animals. And that is only part of the ocean plastic problem.

Skipping straws may be hip. But there are much better ways to fight pollution.

02/14/2018

We have a preprint of our research into the hematology, biochemistry, and toxicology of hawksbill sea turtles in El Salvador! Get a sneak peak at it before it is published in an academic journal!

Sea turtles are a keystone species and are highly sensitive to changes in their environment, making them excellent environmental indicators. In light of environmental and climate changes, species are increasingly threatened by pollution, changes in ocean health, habitat alteration, and plastic inges...

12/04/2017

Today we were excited to donate a darting pistol to the local zoo in Leon, Nicaragua, which is in need of many basic supplies. Now they will have a safe way to anesthetize their animals and be prepared for anything unexpected.

11/04/2017

Global health=global security. Check out this new content from Devex on how disease can cause economic and global security issues in powerful ways throughout the world.

The power of global health to drive safety and stability worldwide