Projects
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Welcome to Rocky Point
Ambergris Caye is home to key nesting beaches for Belize. These beaches are currently in areas that are not yet developed. Tons of garbage lands on these beaches annually. It is almost am impossible task to completely rid these areas of garbage, but in an effort to reduce its quantity
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Coral Ed-Ventures
Coral Reef Ed-Ventures is an innovative, cooperative educational venture between Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and the Hol Chan Marine Reserve in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, Belize. This school-based project began in 2000 as an effort to facilitate community awareness of reef ecology and to support and encourage reef preservation.
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Research and Monitoring
Nesting beach surveys are the most widely implemented monitoring tool in use globally, and are an important component of assessing sea turtle populations. These surveys are important to evaluate the effects of recovery and conservation efforts at nesting sites. Population size is assessed by counting the number of clutches laid
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What educations means
Program Objectives: Disseminate information on importance of marine resources Raise awareness of conservation issues Foster voluntary compliance of the marine reserve and the Belize Fisheries Department regulations through stakeholder involvement