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.
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.
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.
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)
Read more: Sustainable Tourism Certification Network of the Americas Baseline Criteria
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?
O Corporation International is an international S-corporation registered in Delaware, USA
my primary mission is to develop workshops, mentoring projects, a digital library, project placement services, and other services.Timeframe
we started to process May 2008, and we expect to be functional and open to public officially December 12, 2012.Social/political situation
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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