The MGL youths engaged in biodiversity education by identifying 220 species while learning about Ya’axché’s Science and Protected Areas Management Programs.
The Maya Golden Landscape (MGL) beekeepers are versatile and hardworking Belizeans earning a sustainable livelihood and securing wealth in nature for future generations.
Thirty-one farmers are at the forefront, making history implementing Belize’s first agroforestry concession. Farmers are growing cacao in a forest reserve.
Forests provide communities with clean water, medicine, food, non-timber forest products, recreational opportunities and other ecological services.
Farmers, community members, and Ya’axché staff gathered at the first Ya’axché Community Forum to share what we have accomplished together over the years.
Business-minded, indigenous Q’eqchi’ Maya women are important forest keepers and are contributing to community development in the Maya Golden Landscape.
Communities of the Maya Golden Landscape were engaged in forest governance discussions, critical in the development of a REDD+ strategy for Belize.
Indigenous Q’eqchi’ Maya farmer Daniel Chiquin, a small scale farmer in the Maya Golden Landscape, is contributing to Belize’s green economy.
Ya’axché continues providing organic biofertilizer production training to men, women and youth in the Maya Golden Landscape.
Ya’axché Summer Camp engaged 100 youths from nine communities in fun active learning activities focused on forest governance in the Maya Golden Landscape.
Yearly, Ya’axché engages over a hundred students of the Maya Golden Landscape in biodiversity research in its BioBlitz event.
We are monitoring whether wildlife are present in Belize’s first agroforestry concession, which is part of our long-term biodiversity monitoring.
Livestock farmer Agnis Ujan has implemented unique mitigation measures that protect jaguars and keep cows. This is the story of Agnis.
Team EcoTourism Belize joins the global birding movement; and, recorded 94 bird species in a one-day event!
Belize is a birding paradise!
Livestock farmer Abraham Kan has a renewed perspective on jaguars. Humans and jaguars can coexist.
12 community members from southern Belize visited the Uaxactún community concession in Guatemala where forest management has been successful.
Ya’axché Institute for Conservation Education, sustainable financing initiative of Ya’axché, includes EcoTourism Belize & Nursery.
Our team had the rare opportunity of sighting a Harpy Eagle inside a protected area that was recently added to our management. A rare Harpy Eagle sighting.
One of the founders of Ya’axché, Bartolo Teul retires after 18 years of community development and conservation in southern Belize. A conservation leader.
Escaped fires threaten forests the homes of wildlife, the crops of farmers and have an impact on livelihoods. Our fire management program is advancing.
Does the sustainable agricultural methods that Ya’axché promotes also provide more habitat for biodiversity? We started the quest in cacao farms in the MGL.
In 2015, twenty-two jaguar attacks on livestock were recorded. Ya’axché’s important work with farmers is critical for the conservation of jaguars in Belize.
Marchilio “Moon” Ack was recognized at a ceremony where he received the prestigious James A. Waight Award for his incredible work in conservation in Belize.
