Bio-diversity

Friends of Nature (FoN) is a community-based conservation organization located right at the tip of Placencia peninsula in southern Belize. It wants to continue raising awareness, understanding, and concern about threats to the Barrier Reef and Laughing Bird Caye National Park, emphasizing particularly linkages between activities of residents of coastal villages and the condition of the reef ecosystem. With youth lies the future, and FoN wants to expand its field school program and provide 400 local students with an opportunity to appreciate the world-class resources of the BBRRS-WHS. All learning is most efficient taken within a context and continuum. Environmental clubs carry out projects like environmental awareness campaigns, clean up campaigns, field trips, and other projects. FoN will also train a cadre of ten adults from each school to assist with the environmental clubs. One focus of the clubs will be to increase awareness in villages of BBRWHS and promote sustainable use of its resources. Friends of Nature will support the environmental clubs in each school with equipment, project design and expertise.

Belize