🌿During the month of March, FCD’s Environmental Educator along with the Belize Forest Department Officer Mr. Joshua Marin, conducted a series of educational farm visits in the Vaca Plateau, Cayo District with farmers who were sensitized and reminded of the importance of preventing forest fires, following all preventative guidelines and to practice no burning. During […]

🌿 Funded by GIZ Selva Maya, FCD has been conducting sensitizing sessions on the concept of One Health. This time, a session was led by Dr. Marvin Manzanero for Governmental authorities, which brought together representatives from the Customs and Immigration Department, Police Department, and BAHA. From Guatemala representation was from CONAP, Ministry of Agriculture, and […]

For the first time World Water Day was celebrated by FCD on the 22nd of March under the theme, “Be the Change You Want to See in The World”. The primary goal for this year’s event was to increase awareness on the importance of the water resources and how citizens could participate in the proper […]

FCD celebrated its 23rd Annual General Meeting on the 4th of December at San Ignacio Resort Hotel. This symbolized a return to a norm in terms of venue and participation of FCD members at the end of the year. Over 75 participants made it to the event, including the Minister responsible for protected areas, Honourable […]

MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD PRESIDENT Friends for Conservation and Development (FCD) has advanced more this year as it moved towards consolidating a landscape management program in the Chiquibul-Maya Mountains. This; however, would not have been possible without the support from the many donors and supporters of FCD. I would like to take this opportunity to […]