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In 1998 Fauna & Flora International intervened to protect one of Central America’s last unbroken stretches of tropical broadleaf forest, in the Toledo district of southern Belize.
The Golden Stream Watershed was under threat from industrial logging, citrus cultivation and shrimp farming. Forming a key component of the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor, the area contains 300 recorded tree species, a diverse assemblage of mammals including threatened species such as jaguar and Baird’s tapir, and 40% of Belize’s bird population
FFI’s Arcadia Land Trust support enabled us to secure a conservation corridor along the Golden Stream, connecting the rugged terrain of the Columbia River Forest Reserve in the Maya Mountains with the coastal mangroves and Belize Barrier Reef beyond. FFI immediately transferred the Golden Stream Corridor Preserve (GSCP) to a nascent local conservation group, the Ya’axché Conservation Trust (YCT).
Over the past 8 years, FFI has focused on developing YCT’s capacity to manage GSCP, providing support and training to community rangers and developing community-based biological monitoring systems. FFI continues to support YCT as a close partner.
Today, FFI plays a major role in Belize’s conservation world, working at a national level to influence and enhance natural resource management policy and practice. FFI sits on the boards of the Bladen Management Consortium, the Toledo Healthy Forest Initiative, the Belize Association of Private Protected Areas, as well as YCT and other associations with influence in Belize’s conservation sector.
With funding from the Global Environmental Facility, FFI is also leading an exciting new initiative to integrate protected area and landscape management across a mosaic of conservation areas and community-owned lands in southern Belize. The project, implemented by FFI in partnership with YCT, will develop and implement a coordinated “ridge to reef” strategy for both conservation management and sustainable development in the Golden Stream Watershed.
This project is supported by Arcadia through FFI’s Arcadia Land Trust .
£50 or $100 could support an experienced community ranger on an FFI project for one month, enabling them to buy a new radio for field communications. This is an example of what your money could do. Please make a donation of however much you can afford.
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