With funding from PACT, FCD has hired, Mr. Salvador Mesh as the Western Chiquibul-Maya Mountains Landscape Technician. Among other tasks, he will spearhead and direct the landscape approach in the targeted region using the streamlined matrix devised between the Ministry of Sustainable Development and FCD. The focus will be towards harmonizing management actions identified in […]

It’s Wild Wonder Wednesday! Five scarlet macaws were soft released this week in the Chiquibul. These parrots were rescued from their natural nests due to the high risk of being poached. The parrots released have not returned after their release, which gives us the confidence that they have made it successfully to the wild. In […]

FCD’s Extension Technician is actively involved on a forest restoration effort in the Vaca Forest Reserve. The implementation of live fencing to recover denuded areas, improving wildlife habitat and instituting natural corridors are expected outputs. There are several areas in the reserve that are completely denuded as a result of the recent forest fires, therefore […]

After ten years, a new website has been launched by FCD which is more representative of the work the organization does. In 2007, with the signing of a co-management agreement with the Forest Department, FCD initiated a more robust program of ecosystem protection. Our work since then was centered on the Chiquibul National Park. Over […]

The Chiquibul Cave System is a system of four hydrologically linked caves totalling approximately 149.7 hectares in length. Explorations conducted in the 80s have revealed that the cave system starts in Belize’s Chiquibul Forest but ends in Guatemala. The section in Guatemala is known as Xibalba. FCD has partnered with Atlas Arqueológico (AA) from Guatemala […]